NBA:Injured Reserve

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Each team may hold 2 players on Injured Reserve. They are paid in full but do not occupy an active roster spot, so IR is how you cover a long absence without carrying the player against your 12–15.

Using IR is optional. You may leave both spots empty if you prefer.

Eligibility

There is no fixed length of injury required, but a player listed day-to-day is not IR-eligible. Anything more serious than day-to-day is acceptable.

Fantrax will let you move almost any flagged player to IR. The day-to-day exclusion is a league rule on top of what the site permits, so the site allowing a move does not make it legal.

Spots and the cap

Spots	2
Counts against your active roster	No
Counts against the salary cap	Yes — full salary

An IR move buys roster flexibility, never cap space. See Rosters.

Activation

A player must be activated within one day of being healthy. This is enforced automatically in Fantrax, so an IR spot cannot be used to park a recovered player.

How to post

Create a topic in the NBA Injured Reserve (IR) forum. The title is the player's name and the description is the move:

	Title	Description
To IR	Michael Adams	Place
Off IR	Michael Adams	Activate

The body states the player and the direction of the move:

Suns place Michael Adams (DEN - PG) $500,000 (2027) on IR

Suns activate Michael Adams (DEN - PG) $500,000 (2027) off IR

Then move him between the active and Injured Reserve sections of your roster post.

See also

• Rosters — the three roster counts and where the IR section goes
• Salary Cap — IR salaries count in full
• G League — the other way to open an active roster spot
• In-Season — weekly lineup obligations