Well, here we go, folks. The NBA offseason is here. It’s time for everybody to make their moves to field the best (or worst?) team they possibly can to win a title or, you know, draft this guy. The Spurs are well on their way.
But everybody has a huge parameter in which they can do that within — and that’s the NBA’s salary cap.
Teams are only allowed to spend up to a certain amount on salaries for their roster before they get into the luxury tax. And once they’re in that tax, there’s a certain threshold that, once they cross it, they’re charged a penalty for every dollar they spend on their roster. Those numbers shift every single year.
Luckily for us, we’ve got some reported numbers out there already so we know what teams are working with.
The NBA has reportedly told its teams the projected salary cap will be at $123.6 million, ESPN’s Tim Bontemps. The luxury tax line will be set at $150.6 million with a hard cap number of $156 million.
This is what teams have to work with this season. Best of luck to your squad.
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