When the 2025 offseason began, only one team - Brooklyn - had a clear path to significant cap room. While there were other teams that could get there, including Memphis and Detroit, those clubs would have needed to renounce key free agents or make cost-cutting moves to open up real space.
The Nets did in fact operate under the cap, as expected, and they were joined by just two other teams. The Grizzlies were one, but the Pistons weren't the other. It was another Central Division club - the Bucks - who also unexpectedly ducked under the cap.
While Brooklyn's path to cap room was obvious, given the lack of sizable contracts on their roster entering the summer, the moves the Grizzlies and Bucks made to create space of their own were a little less straightforward.
With that in mind, we want to take a look back and trace the steps those two teams took to generate the cap room necessary to complete a pair of major signings: Myles Turner's four-year free agent deal for Milwaukee and Jaren Jackson Jr.'s contract renegotiation for Memphis.
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