Contracts

Teams offer contracts to players in return for playing on their team. A contract consists of three parts.
- daily salary
- contract length
- signing bonus (optional)
Additionally, contracts can have a no-trade clause. This prevents the owner from trading a player to another team.
Players must exercise caution when signing a contract, since there is no way to be released from a contract without the owners permission. Once you sign the owner has all the power, they could make it so you never get to play, or trade you.
Any player that is a free agent can receive a contract offer from any team (unless that team has a level cap).
Players that are signed to contracts with D-League teams may also be offered contracts by any owner.
Players currently under contract can only have their contracts renegotiated by their current team.

Contract Terms

Each player is paid a daily salary every day he is with a team.
This salary is paid overnight, beginning on Day 1 and ending on Day 40.
No salary is paid during the offseason (day 41 to whenever it ends).
Each player has a minimum and maximum salary allowed, based on his level and other factors.
If a player is released from his team, the daily salary is no longer paid.
The maximum salary for a player is 2.5x the minimum daily salary.

Contracts can be offered for a fixed length of time, or can be scheduled to end at the the end of a season.
- For example, a Full Season (40 days) contract accepted on day 12 of season 5 would end on day 12 of season 6.
The maximum length of any contract is 3 seasons and the minimum is 1 season.
Players level 10 and under can sign short term contracts of 10, 15, or 20 day length.
Contracts that end on Day 40 have the first year of a contract shortened to the remainder of the current season, and each additional season lasts a full 40 days.
- For example, a 1 season, Ends on Day 40 contract offered on day 39 of season 4 will end on day 40 of season 4.
- A 2 season, Ends on Day 40 contract offered on day 0 of season 5 will end on day 40 of season 6.

Players can be given an optional bonus when signing.
This money is paid when a contract is signed and stays with a player even if he is released.
Players have maximum bonuses that can be given in any contract.
Players level 10 and higher also have minimum signing bonuses when they are free agents (but not for renegotiation).
- The minimum bonus is 5 times the minimum salary.
- The maximum bonus is 45 times the minimum salary.

Offers can also have a no-trade clause. Players with no-trade clause in their contracts cannot be traded to other teams.
The only way a player can be traded is to renegotiate another contract that does not have this clause.
No-trade clauses are a way for players to protect themselves from being traded to teams they did not intend to play for.
If a player wishes to be traded to a specific team, there is no way to guarantee this.
Players can only have their owners renegotiate a contract without a no-trade clause. However, owners are free to trade players to any team they want if there is not a no-trade clause.

Players already on a team can renegotiate for different terms, including extensions or signing bonuses for equipment.
Players that would require a signing bonus as a free agent do not require signing bonuses when renegotiating contracts.

See Trade and Cut Rules for information about trade deadlines, rules on when you can trade/cut players, and more.

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