By Luke Adams | at July 24, 2026 8:26 am
As the NBA regular season approaches and teams reduce their rosters from the 21-player offseason limit to the 15-man regular season max, the best way to determine which players will survive preseason cuts is to consider their contracts. Players with guaranteed salaries for 2026/27 are far more likely to earn spots on 15-man rosters than players whose contracts aren’t fully guaranteed.
Keeping that in mind, we’re using the space below to keep tabs on the players on each NBA team who don’t have fully guaranteed contracts. The players listed here have non-guaranteed salaries, partially guaranteed salaries, or Exhibit 9 or Exhibit 10 contracts, which essentially function like non-guaranteed deals.
Unless otherwise noted, these players are on minimum-salary contracts. Some players on this list have partial guarantees, which we’ve also mentioned below.
Not all of these players will be waived before the regular season begins, so we’ll maintain this list for the next several months, up until January 10, 2027. That’s the day that all players still under contract will have their salaries fully guaranteed for the rest of the 2026/27 season.
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Only players who have formally signed contracts are listed below, so if a player has reportedly reached an agreement with a team on a non-guaranteed deal, we’ll add him to our list when that deal becomes official and we confirm the details.
Without further ado, here’s the full list of players without fully guaranteed salaries for 2026/27, broken down by team:
Updated 7-24-26 (8:25 am CT)
Note: Players on Exhibit 10 contracts are marked with an asterisk (*).
Atlanta Hawks
Mouhamed Gueye
Boston Celtics
Tucker DeVries *
Milos Uzan *
Brooklyn Nets
None
Charlotte Hornets
Pat Connaughton
Mouhamadou Gueye
Chicago Bulls
None
Cleveland Cavaliers
Craig Porter Jr.
Dallas Mavericks
Moussa Cisse
Denver Nuggets
None
Detroit Pistons
Duncan Robinson ($15,992,957)Partially guaranteed for $2,000,000.
Paul Reed ($5,602,689)
Tolu Smith
Golden State Warriors
Charles Bassey
Partially guaranteed for $1,400,000.
Houston Rockets
Jae’Sean Tate
Reportedly partially guaranteed for $1,040,000.
Isaiah Crawford
JD Davison
Indiana Pacers
None
Los Angeles Clippers
Cam Christie
Los Angeles Lakers
None
Memphis Grizzlies
Jaylen Wells
Partially guaranteed for $300,000.
Taj Gibson
Miami Heat
Myron Gardner
Partially guaranteed for $500,000.
Pelle Larsson
Milwaukee Bucks
Pete Nance
Minnesota Timberwolves
Trey Lyles
Partially guaranteed for $1,500,000.
New Orleans Pelicans
None
New York Knicks
None
Oklahoma City Thunder
None
Orlando Magic
Jamal Cain
Philadelphia 76ers
Jabari Walker
Partially guaranteed for $250,000.
Dalen Terry
Duke Miles *
Phoenix Suns
Haywood Highsmith
Partially guaranteed for $1,000,000.
Jamaree Bouyea
Portland Trail Blazers
Vit Krejci
Micah Potter
Sacramento Kings
None
San Antonio Spurs
None
Toronto Raptors
Nate Bittle *
Utah Jazz
Mo Bamba
Partially guaranteed for $200,000.
Washington Wizards
Justin Champagnie
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