Offseason Salary Cap Digest: Toronto Raptors

Plenty of teams around the NBA will have more cap space than they know what to do with this offseason due to the impending leap from $70MM to an estimated $92MM. That’s not the case in Toronto though, where new contract extensions for Jonas Valanciunas and Terrence Ross will help increase the team’s total guaranteed salary to nearly $70MM. All that guaranteed money will make it very difficult for the Raps to find a way to keep both of its marquee free agents — DeMar DeRozan figures to sign for the max, while Bismack Biyombo‘s strong finish to the season could land him a deal in the $15MM-per-year range. Toronto only has Biyombo’s Non-Bird rights, so if the Raptors intend to keep both players, they’ll have to get creative, a challenge GM Masai Ujiri will likely welcome.

See how Toronto’s cap situation looks for 2016/17 as Hoops Rumors continues its offseason salary cap digest series.

Guaranteed Salary

• Jonas Valanciunas ($14,382,023)
• DeMarre Carroll ($14,200,000)
• Kyle Lowry ($12,000,000)
• Terrence Ross ($10,000,000)
• Cory Joseph ($7,315,000)
• Patrick Patterson ($6,050,000)
• Lucas Nogueira ($1,921,320)
• Bruno Caboclo ($1,589,640)
• Delon Wright ($1,577,280)
• Norman Powell ($874,636)
• Total: $69,909,899
  

Player Options

• DeMar DeRozan ($10,350,000)

Team Options

• None

Non-Guaranteed Salary

• None

Restricted Free Agents (Qualifying Offers/Cap Holds)

• None

Unrestricted Free Agents (Cap Holds)

• DeMar DeRozan ($15,500,000) — pending player option
• Luis Scola ($3,480,000)
• Bismack Biyombo ($3,376,800)¹
• James Johnson ($3,250,000)
• Jason Thompson ($980,431)
• Total: $26,587,231
  

Other Cap Holds

• No. 9 pick ($2,253,300)
• Nando De Colo ($1,901,900)
• No. 27 pick ($996,700)
• Total: $5,151,900

Projected Salary Cap: $92,000,000

Footnotes:

1. Biyombo has declined his player option for 2016/17.

The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.