 The deadline to file for salary arbitration is July 5 with cases being heard between late July and early August.A team can take a player to arbitration once in his career.While there is no explicitly-stated maximum number of times a player may request salary arbitration, since under the current CBA players spend four off-seasons as potential arbitration-eligible RFA's, a player could feasibly make up to four such requests before he becomes an unrestricted free agent.