With dozens of new players entering the NBA every season as part of that year’s rookie class, there aren’t enough roster spots to go around for all of the veterans who become free agents in a given offseason.
Some of those vets left on the outside looking in will retire. But many of the NBA’s job-seeking free agents wind up accepting opportunities in other parts of the world, signing with a team that competes in one of the many professional basketball leagues in Europe, Asia, Australia, or South America.
Listed below are the players who finished last season on an NBA roster and have since signed contracts overseas with non-NBA (and non-G-League) clubs.
Since this list is focused exclusively on players who finished the 2023/24 season under contract with an NBA team, there are some notable names who made the move overseas in recent months but aren’t included. For instance, Furkan Korkmaz spent six-and-a-half seasons in the league before being waived by the Pacers in February. He didn’t find work in the NBA for the remainder of the ’23/24 campaign, then opted to join AS Monaco this offseason.
Here are the 2024 NBA free agents who signed with international clubs this offseason, listed alongside the NBA team with whom they finished last season:
Australia
Belgium
China
France
Greece
Israel
Italy
Japan
Montenegro
Russia
Serbia
Spain
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
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