NBA, NBPA Agree To Allow COVID-19 Impacted Teams To Sign Replacement Players
The NBA and NBPA have agreed to allow teams to sign replacement players if they are short-handed due to COVID-19.
The amended rules, which were outlined in the memo, went into effect Sunday night, and they will remain in place until Jan. 19.
A team will be allowed to sign a replacement player for each positive COVID-19 case on their roster.
Any replacement players who are signed also won’t count toward a team’s yearly salary and won’t add to its potential luxury tax payment.
As part of the agreement, the NBA and the NBPA will scrap the limit on the number of games a two-way player is allowed to be on a team’s active roster. Under a previous agreement that the two sides came to this summer, there had been a 50-game limit.
