How do the NBA’s new salary cap rules affect the Boston Celtics for the coming 2024 season? As many fans of the team know all too well, the league’s new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) was created specifically to make life difficult for contending ball clubs built like the Celtics are headed into next season.
But how much will the enhanced penalties it generates impact Boston for the coming campaign as they make a run on hanging Banner 19? Bleacher Report cap expert Eric Pincus recently surveyed the entire Association with this question in mind, and had plenty to say about the Celtics.
“As the current NBA champion, the Celtics may be the only team who should be willing to disregard the penalties of the second apron,” he writes.
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“Boston has signed Jayson Tatum, Derrick White and Sam Hauser to extensions this offseason,” suggests the B/R cap expert.
“Signing players to an extension or re-signing them as free agents doesn’t trigger a hard cap, but the Celtics will have a hard time adding other players outside of the draft or for cheap in free agency.”
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