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Ten players achieved a significant goal Tuesday just by remaining on their respective rosters. All of them signed non-guaranteed contracts for the minimum salary this summer, essentially making them training camp invitees with slim chances of surviving preseason cuts. As they watched most others on make-good deals fail to hang on until opening night, these guys stuck around, with Tuesday’s date of January 7th circled on their calendars. That’s the de facto leaguewide contract guarantee date, which was officially set for today but in practice comes three days early to accommodate the 48-hour waiver process. Everyone who had a non-guaranteed or partially guaranteed contract was assured of a full-season salary after Tuesday, but the smiles had to have been especially wide on the faces of those who overcame the longest odds to make it happen.

A few of the names on this list represent some of the league’s best success stories this season, with former No. 2 overall pick Michael Beasley reviving his career in Miami, and Xavier Henry of the Lakers, another one-time lottery pick, finally delivering on his potential. Other players appear to have remained on their teams merely to provide necessary depth, like Cole Aldrich and A.J. Price, who put together have played a total of only 100 minutes.

Not listed are players who signed their contracts prior to this summer or after the regular season began, or who received partial guarantees or more than the minimum salary. All of the players below are on one-year pacts except Brandon Davies, whose fully non-guaranteed contract with the Sixers covers four years.

• Cole Aldrich, Knicks
• Michael Beasley, Heat
• Rasual Butler, Pacers
• Brandon Davies, Sixers
• Xavier Henry, Lakers
• Robbie Hummel, Timberwolves
• Ryan Kelly, Lakers
• Roger Mason Jr., Heat
• Toure’ Murry, Knicks
• A.J. Price, Timberwolves

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As has been discussed ad nauseam in recent reports on Andrew Bynum, the NBA’s contract guarantee deadline for 2013/14 arrives later today. If a team waives a player on a non-guaranteed contract by 4:00pm central time, that club won’t be on the hook for the remainder of the player’s salary. However, if the player remains on a roster beyond that, he’ll be assured of his full ’13/14 salary.

The NBA’s contract guarantee date technically lands on January 10th, but teams must ensure that players must clear waivers before Friday to avoid being on the hook for their full salaries. Because the waiver process takes 48 hours, that means making cuts today.

A number of players on non-guaranteed contracts are in no danger of being waived, but we’re still anticipating plenty of roster moves today, with veterans like Bynum and Stephen Jackson among the players expected to be released.

Here’s a quick rundown of the remaining players believed to be on non-guaranteed contracts, whose full 2013/14 salaries will be assured if they survive today’s round of roster cuts. Unless otherwise indicated, these players are on minimum-salary deals.

• 76ers: Lorenzo Brown, Brandon Davies, Daniel Orton, Hollis Thompson, Elliot Williams
  
• Bobcats: Jeff Adrien, Chris Douglas-Roberts
• Bulls: D.J. Augustin, Andrew Bynum ($12.25MM; $6MM guaranteed),, Erik Murphy ($250K guaranteed)
• Cavaliers: Matthew Dellavedova, C.J. Miles ($2.23MM), Henry Sims
• Clippers: Stephen Jackson
• Grizzlies: James Johnson
• Hawks: Shelvin Mack, Cartier Martin, Mike Scott
• Heat: Michael Beasley, Roger Mason Jr.
  
• Jazz: Ian Clark, Diante Garrett, Mike Harris
• Knicks: Cole Aldrich, Toure’ Murry
• Lakers: Xavier Henry, Ryan Kelly, Kendall Marshall, Shawne Williams
• Pacers: Rasual Butler
• Pistons: Josh Harrellson, Peyton Siva
• Raptors: Julyan Stone
• Rockets: Patrick Beverley, Ronnie Brewer, Greg Smith
• Spurs: Malcolm Thomas
  
• Suns: Dionte Christmas
  
• Thunder: Ryan Gomes, Hasheem Thabeet ($1.2MM)
• Timberwolves: Robbie Hummel, A.J. Price
• Warriors: Kent Bazemore
  

This post is just a refresher, so it won’t be updated throughout the day. However, we’ll keep our long-standing page of non-guaranteed deals up-to-date as teams make their cuts, so be sure to check that out, or keep tabs on our transactions feed for the latest moves.

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Most of this season’s deals will go down within 24 hours of the February 20th trade deadline. That doesn’t mean January won’t feature at least one intriguing swap. Last season there were two trades, and while the Grizzlies helped their ledger with a three-for-one swap with the Cavs on the 22nd, the deal that really made waves came eight days later, when Memphis shipped Rudy Gay out of town. The Raptors put Gay into yet another trade last month, so there’s certainly precedent for big names changing teams at or before this point in the season.

Here’s a look back at the most significant January trade from each of the past four years, deals in which the Grizzlies and Mavericks figured prominently:

January 30th, 2013: In a three-team deal, the Grizzlies traded Rudy Gay and Hamed Haddadi to the Raptors, the Pistons traded Austin Daye and Tayshaun Prince to the Grizzlies, and the Raptors traded Jose Calderon to the Pistons and Ed Davis and a 2013 second-round pick (Jamaal Franklin) to the Grizzlies.

• The only player from this trade still with Toronto less than a year later is Daye, and he wasn’t even sent to the Raptors in this deal; he signed with the Raptors in the offseason after playing out the rest of 2012/13 with the Mavericks. The Pistons are similarly empty-handed, though they used the cap flexibility created when they sent out Prince’s long-term deal to help them sign Josh Smith this past summer.

January 4th, 2012: In a three team deal, the Grizzlies traded Xavier Henry to the Pelicans and a 2012 second-round pick (Tornike Shengelia) to the Sixers, the Pelicans traded a second-round pick (Glen Rice Jr.) to the Sixers, and the Sixers traded Marreese Speights to the Grizzlies.

• The Pelicans (then Hornets) wound up with a player picked 12th overall just 18 months prior for the cost of a mere second-round pick, though Henry didn’t display his promise until he wound up with the Lakers this season. The Grizzlies dealt Henry away for frontcourt depth in the wake of an injury to Darrell Arthur, and Memphis would shed Speights a little more than a year later in last year’s three-for-one trade. The Sixers sent out both of the second-rounders they acquired in later trades.

January 24th, 2011: The Mavericks traded Alexis Ajinca, cash, and a 2013 second-round draft pick (Jamaal Franklin) to the Raptors for Georgios Printezis.

• Recent Pelicans signee Ajinca endured his second trade in a little more than six months and was on his way out of the league for two years until New Orleans brought him back two weeks ago.

January 11th, 2010: The Mavericks traded Kris Humphries and Shawne Williams to the Nets for Eduardo Najera.

• Humphries was a lightly regarded backup before he got to the Nets, but the then-sixth-year power forward assumed his most significant role to date in New Jersey, and the Nets re-signed him to a one-year, $8MM deal after the lockout. He made even more on his next contract, a two-year, $24MM pact that expires at the end of this season.