With the NBA regular season ending tonight, teams are now focusing on their first round series or anxiously awaiting the draft lottery results. With the playoffs set to begin on Saturday, teams’ rosters are now essentially locked in for the remainder of the postseason. We at Hoops Rumors are in the process of taking a look ahead at each franchise’s salary cap situation heading into the summer, and the free agent frenzy that occurs every offseason. While the exact amount of the 2015/16 salary cap won’t be announced until July, the cap is projected to come in somewhere around $67.4MM, with the luxury tax threshold projected at approximately $81MM. This year’s $63.065MM cap represented an increase of 7.7% over 2013/14, which was well above the league’s projected annual increase of 4.5%.
We’ll continue onward by taking a look at the Jazz’s cap outlook for 2015/16:
Here are the players with guaranteed contracts:
- Trey Burke — $2,658,240
- Alec Burks — $9,463,484
- Dante Exum — $3,777,720
- Derrick Favors — $12MM
- Rudy Gobert — $1,175,880
- Rodney Hood — $1,348,440
- Gordon Hayward — $15,409,470
- Grant Jerrett — $947,276
Here are the players with non-guaranteed contracts:
- Trevor Booker — $4,775,000 ($250K Guaranteed)
- Jack Cooley — $845,059
- Bryce Cotton — $845,059
- Chris Johnson — $981,348
- Elijah Millsap — $845,059
Players with options:
- None
The Jazz’s Cap Summary for 2015/16:
- Guaranteed Salary: $46,730,510
- Options/Non-Guaranteed Salary: $8,041,525
- Total: $54,772,035
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.