Salary cap expected to drop to $99M

Teams have been informed the NBA expects the salary cap to go down from latest projections, per league source. $99 million the new number.

— Jay King (@ByJayKing) June 22, 2017

edit: the below tweet is from April... the last cap projection I could find

Sources: The NBA has delivered teams a new salary cap projection for the 2017-18 season: $101M. The cap is $94.1M this season.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) April 7, 2017

It was supposed to be what, $108m?

NVM, it was expected to be $121.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndica...02307.amp.html

That's one heck of a drop. I guess that's one way to prevent stars from changing teams.

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That explains things.

Not so much a big trade in the works. But literally less money.

How is that even figured anyway?

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That explains things.

Not so much a big trade in the works. But literally less money.

How is that even figured anyway?

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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...2017-offseason

This does make that 2 million from Frazier a bit more important https://t.co/6n7hnomNFE

— Jake Madison (@NOLAJake) June 22, 2017

After trading Frazier & the cap reduction to $99 million, the Pelicans now have $13.8M in cap space assuming no cap holds & no other moves.

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) June 22, 2017

AD: $23.8
Boogie: $18.1
Hill: $11.7
Asik: $10.6
Moore: $8.4
Ajinca: $5.0
QPon: $3.9
Diallo: $1.3
3 Mins: $2.4

Total: $85.2M
Cap: $99M

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) June 22, 2017

NBA teams just found out they're getting $3 million less in salary cap space. Cap expected to come at $99M, down from $102M projection

— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) June 22, 2017

Wanna know why the cap went down? Here's a big part of it:https://t.co/TtJ2pKKPyA

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) June 22, 2017

edit: so LeBron & Steph better start throwing a game or 2 in those early round blowouts to make life better for everyone else in the Association

And this is where everyone starts to get pissy about super teams

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Wanna know why the cap went down? Here's a big part of it:https://t.co/TtJ2pKKPyA

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) June 22, 2017

edit: so LeBron & Steph better start throwing a game or 2 in those early round blowouts to make life better for everyone else in the Association

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its actually refreshing to know that the league actually has a financial incentive to try to level out the imbalance somewhat

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its actually refreshing to know that the league actually has a financial incentive to try to level out the imbalance somewhat

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or playoff refereeing could get worse :hihi:

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Originally Posted by rt0307

After trading Frazier & the cap reduction to $99 million, the Pelicans now have $13.8M in cap space assuming no cap holds & no other moves.

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) June 22, 2017

AD: $23.8
Boogie: $18.1
Hill: $11.7
Asik: $10.6
Moore: $8.4
Ajinca: $5.0
QPon: $3.9
Diallo: $1.3
3 Mins: $2.4

Total: $85.2M
Cap:
$99M

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) href="https://twitter.com/MasonGinsberg/status/877734547063885826">June 22, 2017

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At the time they signed, Asik I was hoping that it would not be too much. Now it looks like it is. Unless of course he becomes a great backup Center.

You know. If we just pretend Asik's contract isn't there I don't really feel bad about any of our contracts.

Hill is a slight overpay but when you look at other wings around the league, especially ones that signed last year, I'd rather have Hill than any other SF who signed for their deal last year (outside of KD of course).

Man if we could go into this off season with 75m instead of 85m on the books that'd have been nice.

We resigned Asik "because we had to".
We are going to throw the kitchen sink at Jrue "because we have to."

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You know. If we just pretend Asik's contract isn't there I don't really feel bad about any of our contracts.

Hill is a slight overpay but when you look at other wings around the league, especially ones that signed last year, I'd rather have Hill than any other SF who signed for their deal last year (outside of KD of course).

Man if we could go into this off season with 75m instead of 85m on the books that'd have been nice.

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Anyone know if he is stretched this season how much extra they save?

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We resigned Asik "because we had to".
We are going to throw the kitchen sink at Jrue "because we have to."

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^^^

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Anyone know if he is stretched this season how much extra they save?

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I know this doesn't directly answer your question but...

Realistic max room for the Pels is likely in the neighborhood of $27M. Assumes no cap holds (so no Jrue), no Ajinca/QPon, & Asik stretched.

— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) June 22, 2017

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We resigned Asik "because we had to".
We are going to throw the kitchen sink at Jrue "because we have to."

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We resigned him because he was coming off arguably his best (or one of his best) season ever statistically and AD had already made it clear he refuses to play center.

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Anyone know if he is stretched this season how much extra they save?

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it makes no sense. it is couple hundreds of grants of difference


we have almost eaten one year of his salary. celebrate it.

why does it feel like the cap is harder on us than most teams?

We need to figure out a way to get rid of Asik. Philly has plenty if room.

Well that really sucks.

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why does it feel like the cap is harder on us than most teams?

We need to figure out a way to get rid of Asik. Philly has plenty if room.

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Because our GM is subpar.

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We resigned him because he was coming off arguably his best (or one of his best) season ever statistically and AD had already made it clear he refuses to play center.

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The problem was we were not competing against anyone. No one was pursuing Asik. We could have signed him for much less. Dumb Demps.

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The problem was we were not competing against anyone. No one was pursuing Asik. We could have signed him for much less. Dumb Demps.

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You have no proof of that. We don't know if other teams offered Asik, what those offers were, nothing of his free agency. All we know is Dell and Asik agreed to terms.