salary cap

The cold and harsh winter that many free agents have dealt with these past two summers after teams went on spending sprees in the 2016 off-season may finally be coming to an end. This also means that the head-scratching contracts may be returning very soon. According to Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports (where are you [...]

Most NBA executives and those involved in the game will agree that the worst position to be in as a franchise is a middle of the road team over the salary cap and a roster filled with veterans. That is the NBA version of purgatory hypothetically. The one NBA franchise that exemplifies this situation the [...]

After an initial projection of $107 million, that has already been lowered to $101 million, the salary cap is now officially projected to land at $99 million for the 2017-18 season. This is bad news for NBA teams that are attempting to add a max-level player or avoid the luxury tax this upcoming season. [tweet [...]

So much for the NBA’s second epic salary-cap spike. When projections for the 2017-18 cap first came out, people were shocked at how low they were. All season, they’ve hovered around $102 to $103 million, less than $10 million above this year’s ceiling. Make no mistake, it’s still a sizable increase. But many were expecting [...]

The NBA’s salary cap is only going to continue to grow. Granted, the spikes won’t be as large as the one we saw this past summer. But the league has never been more popular, and the cap isn’t about to go down. According to The Vertical’s Shams Charania, in fact, it will hit $120 million [...]

We may have underestimated how low Greg Monroe’s trade value actually is. It widely known that the Milwaukee Bucks have been trying to move him for about a year. That he remains with the team, in an inconsistent role, seemed to be evidence that Milwaukee was asking for too much in exchange for his services. [...]

So that’s why Chris Bosh made it a point to talk about hooping again. On the heels of Bosh using Snapchat to declare that he’s playing basketball, suggesting that he’s on track to return to the court for the Miami Heat after missing the latter halves of each of the last two seasons, we now [...]

Next summer was supposed to be a lot like this summer for the NBA. The cap would explode, and free agency would be crazy—crazy expensive. But, as of now, it won’t be as crazy expensive as 2016. The league’s salary cap jumped by nearly $25 million this summer, from around $70 million to just over [...]

September 19, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors This coming season, the LA Lakers are on pace to have the leagues highest payroll at a whopping $100M. Given Kobe Bryant makes a league high at almost $27M and Pau Gasol makes $19M [...]

July 16th, 2008 – Dr. J-Water As a big fan of the Denver Nuggets since Carmelo Anthony came to the league, I almost fell off my chair last night when I heard that the Nuggets had traded their former defensive player of the year Marcus Camby to the LA Clippers for a future SECOND ROUND [...]