In late January, the NBA lowered its salary cap projection for the 2024-25 season from $142 million to $141 million. Although the projection has dipped, it still represents a 3.66 percent increase from the 2023-24 campaign's $136 million salary cap. That climb in salary cap would have the following impact on the 2024-25 season: [Read More]
One of the goals of the NBA's latest Collective Bargaining Agreement is to curb spending. The higher a team's payroll, the fewer tools they have. The NBA has a soft cap, which allows teams to spend without limit, provided they have the tools (more formally, "exceptions") to do so. But certain exceptions will trigger [Read More]
NBA teams can include cash as part of a trade but are limited to $7,005,000 for all transactions during the 2023-24 season. That's two separate figures representing what teams can take in and what they can send out. For instance, the San Antonio Spurs have received $6.8 million in cash via trade this year [Read More]
Teams generally prefer to stay under the NBA's luxury tax threshold ($165,294,000) unless they're a championship contender. Some may have begun rebuilding (or aren't as good as they had hoped) but still have large contracts on the books that will soon expire. As the February 8 trade deadline nears, some franchises will make cost-cutting [Read More]
First-round picks sign a four rookie-scale contract in the NBA, but only the first two seasons are locked in. The third and fourth are team options. The options for the 2021 and 2022 draft classes need to be decided by October 31. For most teams, the options are simple clerical decisions. The Toronto Raptors [Read More]
