When a free agent signs a standard contract with an NBA team, he becomes ineligible to be traded for at least three months. Since this season’s trade deadline will land on February 11, that means a player who signs a new deal with a team at any point between Nov. 12 and the deadline won’t be eligible to be dealt this season.

That three-month trade restriction also applies to a player who is converted from a two-way contract to a standard deal. So if a player signs as a free agent or is promoted from a two-way deal to a standard roster spot on Thursday, his trade restriction wouldn’t lift until Feb. 12, a day after this season’s deadline has passed.

The last signee who will have trade eligibility later this season will likely be veteran center Mason Plumlee, whose contract with the Kings was finalized on Nov. 11. If Plumlee — whose deal is reportedly non-guaranteed — is still under contract with Sacramento three months from now, he’d become trade-eligible on Feb. 11, the day of the deadline.

We previously shared lists of players who won’t become trade-eligible until December 15 or January 15 after signing new contracts in the offseason. We’ll soon publish one more list detailing which players have special, specific trade eligibility dates — that group will include Plumlee and several players who signed offseason contract extensions, among others.

The three-month trade restriction doesn’t apply to players who sign two-way contracts — those players are ineligible to be dealt for just 30 days. Trades involving players on two-way deals are pretty rare, but it’s worth noting that anyone who inks a two-way contract on or before January 6 would still become trade-eligible ahead of this season’s deadline.