NBA tweaks replacement player rules for COVID-19 cases

The NBA is making it significantly easier, and in some cases a requirement, to bring in new players amid its largest wave of COVID-19 cases.

Per The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the league will allow all teams to sign a replacement player for each player under contract that tests positive for COVID-19, effective immediately through Jan. 19.

Sources: NBA teams will now be required to sign one replacement player when they have two positive tests on the roster. For three positive tests, two replacement signings are required. For four positive results or more, three hardship signings required. https://t.co/tOtwOLzyb4
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) December 20, 2021

Those signings will not affect a team’s salary cap or luxury tax calculations, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

The NBA and NBPA have reached an agreement on additional replacement players for teams, sources tell ESPN. https://t.co/dk47Uha31Q
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) December 20, 2021

The NBA is also reportedly removing the 50-game maximum for players on two-way contracts, allowing teams to use them as much as they want to fill out their roster.

NBA tweaks replacement player rules for COVID-19 cases

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