For the first two and a half months of the NBA season, the majority of the league’s teams maintained full 15-man rosters, with many of those clubs keeping at least one or two players on non-guaranteed deals. As of today, however, all of those non-guaranteed contracts became fully guaranteed. Many clubs cut ties with players before that happened, and there are now several teams with open roster spots.
On January 5, teams became eligible to fill those open roster spots by signing players to 10-day contracts, and the bulk of the signings that take place between now and April will be of the 10-day variety. Hoops Rumors has created a database that allows you to keep on top of those deals, tracking every 10-day signing all season long.
The 10-Day Contract Tracker includes information on all 10-day contracts signed from the 2006/07 season on, giving you a chance to identify trends regarding your favorite teams and players. The search filters in the database make it easy to sort by team, player and year. Just be sure to write a player’s last name first if searching in that field. You can even see whether a player and team signed a second 10-day contract, and if the short-term deals led to an agreement that covered the rest of the season.
For instance, if you want to see how many 10-day deals current Pelicans guard DeAndre Liggins has signed over the course of his career, you can find that information here. Similarly, if you want to see all the 10-day contracts that the Bucks – who opened a roster spot when they waived Liggins – have signed in recent years, you can do so here. You can also identify which 10-day deals are currently active, since those contracts are marked with an asterisk.
A link to our 10-Day Contract Tracker can be found at any time in the Tools menu at the top of the page, or in the right sidebar under “Hoops Rumors Features” on our desktop site. On our mobile site, you can find it on our “Features” page. We’ll be keeping it up to date for the rest of the season, so be sure to check back to keep tabs on the latest signings as they become official.
Why is the name of the agency so big and the team name so small? I would think most people using that tool care more about the signing team than the agent. Sorry if I am being nit-picky, but my eyes aren’t as young as they used to be.
The simple answer is: Because that’s how it was set up when we created it years ago. Which is admittedly not a great answer. I’ll see if I can try to get the formatting tweaked a little. Thanks for the suggestion.