NBA Teams With Hard Caps For 2023/24
2023/07/nba-teams-with-hard-caps-for-2023-24.htmlThe NBA salary cap is somewhat malleable, with various exceptions allowing every team to surpass the $136,021,000 threshold once their cap room is used up.
Eight 2023 Draft Picks Have Yet To Sign NBA Contracts
2023/07/eight-2023-draft-picks-have-yet-to-sign-nba-contracts.htmlFirst-round picks signed using the rookie scale exception: 29… Second-round picks signed using the new second-round pick exception: 13
How Teams Are Using 2023/24 Bi-Annual Exceptions
2023/07/how-teams-are-using-2023-24-bi-annual-exceptions.htmlThe bi-annual exception is one of the tools available to NBA teams who are over the cap, giving those clubs the flexibility to offer free agents more than the minimum salary. … Clubs that go below the cap in order to use cap room lose access to the exception.
How Teams Are Using 2023/24 Mid-Level Exceptions
2023/07/how-teams-are-using-2023-24-mid-level-exceptions.htmlA team that goes under the cap to use its available cap room, for instance, receives a form of the MLE known as the room exception. … In addition to receiving approximately $136MM in cap room and being allowed to surpass that threshold in order to sign players using Bird Rights or the minimum salary exception, each NBA team also receives a mid-level exception.
Contract Details: Crowder, Grant, Powell, Green, Lewis
2023/07/contract-details-crowder-grant-powell-green-lewis.htmlThe Lakers signed second-rounder Maxwell Lewis to a standard four-year contract using the new second-round pick exception, reports Khobi Price of The Southern California News Group (Twitter link). … ESPN's Bobby Marks was first to report that the original terms of Green's contract agreement had been amended, with Houston using cap room to sign the veteran forward.
Sixers Match Jazz’s Offer Sheet To Paul Reed
2023/07/sixers-to-match-jazzs-offer-sheet-to-paul-reed.htmlThe Jazz used their $7.7MM room exception to complete Reed’s offer sheet.
Paul Reed Receives Offer Sheet From Jazz
2023/07/paul-reed-receives-offer-sheet-from-jazz.htmlThe Jazz will use their $7.7MM room exception to complete Reed's offer sheet, tweets Bobby Marks of ESPN.
Rockets Notes: Brooks Deal, Green, Harden, Martin
2023/07/rockets-notes-brooks-deal-green-harden-martin.htmlIf that figure is precise, rather than rounded, it means the forward will have to be signed using cap room rather than the room exception, which maxes out at $7.7MM.
Celtics Sign Jordan Walsh To Four-Year Deal
2023/07/celtics-jordan-walsh-agree-to-four-year-deal.htmlThe NBA's new second-round pick exception will allow the Celtics to sign Walsh to a four-year deal without requiring cap room or the mid-level exception to do so.
Warriors Sign Trayce Jackson-Davis To Four-Year Deal
2023/07/warriors-trayce-jackson-davis-agree-to-four-year-deal.htmlThe Warriors have no cap room and no mid-level exception available this offseason, so they would've been limited to offering Jackson-Davis a two-year, minimum-salary contract if not for the NBA's new second-round pick exception, which allows them to go up to four years.
Mavs Acquire Grant Williams In Three-Team Sign-And-Trade
2023/07/mavs-landing-grant-williams-in-three-team-sign-and-trade.htmlInterestingly, the reported figure Williams will receive is the value of the non-taxpayer mid-level exception, which will be worth $53.34MM over four years. … As for the Spurs, they'll use some of their cap room to accommodate Bullocks' $10.5MM salary, according to Marks, who notes they'll have about $12.5MM in space remaining after the deal.
Mavs To Sign Thybulle To Offer Sheet; Blazers Will Have Right To Match
2023/07/mavs-to-sign-thybulle-to-offer-sheet-blazers-will-have-right-to-match.htmlJake Fischer of Yahoo Sports was first to report that the Mavs would likely pay the 26-year-old slightly below the full mid-level exception. … The Mavericks don't have any cap room available, but they haven't used any of their $12.4MM non-taxpayer mid-level exception, so their offer sheet for Thybulle will presumably come out of that figure.
Magic Waive Bol Bol
2023/07/magic-waive-bol-bol.htmlA team would require $2.2MM in cap room or a trade exception that could cover that amount in order to place a waiver claim on Bol.
Hoops Rumors Glossary: Second-Round Pick Exception
2023/07/hoops-rumors-glossary-second-round-pick-exception.htmlThey'll be signed using either cap space or the room exception. … The rookie scale exception allows teams to sign as many first-round picks as they need to, within a predetermined salary range, without requiring cap room.
Bucks Sign Robin Lopez
2023/07/bucks-to-sign-robin-lopez-2.htmlThe full $5MM taxpayer mid-level exception won't be available to the team, barring a cost-cutting move.… Although Robin's on-court role in Milwaukee may not be any more expansive than what it was in Cleveland, he'll provide the Bucks with another veteran leader in the locker room and an experienced option up front if called upon.
Rockets Notes: Free Agency, Green, Lopez, Whitmore, Tate
2023/07/rockets-notes-free-agency-green-lopez-whitmore-tate.htmlGreen's new $6MM contract is small enough to be absorbed with the team's $7.7MM room exception before the Brooks trade is completed, Feigen adds. … However, he says the more likely scenario is that the team will keep the exception open and use it, along with roughly $4.5MM in remaining cap space, to see if it can sign anyone else.
2023 NBA Draft Pick Signings
2023/07/2023-nba-draft-pick-signings.htmlThe NBA's latest Collective Bargaining Agreement introduced a new salary cap exception for second-rounders, which will allow teams to sign those players to contracts of up to four years with a starting salary worth up to the equivalent to the minimum for a two-year veteran. … In the past, such a deal would have required cap room or another exception such as the mid-level.
Kings Sign Colby Jones To Four-Year Deal
2023/07/kings-sign-colby-jones-to-four-year-deal.htmlThe Kings have become the first team to use the NBA's cap exception for second-round picks, having signed No. … It allows teams to sign their second-rounders without requiring cap room or a cap exception like the mid-level.
NBA Minimum Salaries For 2023/24
2023/07/nba-minimum-salaries-for-2023-24.htmlAn NBA team that has spent all its cap space and doesn't have any of its mid-level or bi-annual exception available still always has the ability to sign a player to a minimum-salary contract, unless that club is right up against its hard cap. … Teams with cap room or with access to the non-taxpayer mid-level exception will have a little more flexibility to sign players to longer-term minimum-salary contracts.
Nuggets Sign Justin Holiday To One-Year Deal
2023/07/nuggets-justin-holiday-agree-to-one-year-deal.htmlBecause they've committed their $5MM taxpayer mid-level exception to Reggie Jackson, the Nuggets are limited to offering minimum-salary contracts to outside free agents. … He should be a good fit in the Nuggets' locker room as another veteran leader, even if he may not play a whole lot, as Mike Singer of The Denver Post tweets.
Central Notes: Bucks, Pistons, Parker, Pacers’ Coaches
2023/07/central-notes-bucks-pistons-parker-pacers-coaches.htmlNehm points out that they can't avoid the apron if they use their full $5MM taxpayer mid-level exception and will have to complete the roster mostly through veteran's minimum contracts and re-signing their own players through Bird rights. … Instead of signing free agents, the Pistons used their cap room to trade for two veterans, which sets them up for big moves at the deadline and next summer, observes Omari Sankofa II of The Detroit Free Press.
Scotto’s Latest: Bridges, O’Neale, Finney-Smith, Blazers, Brown, DSJ
2023/07/scottos-latest-bridges-oneale-finney-smith-blazers-brown-dsj.htmlBefore he agreed to accept a two-year, $45MM offer from the Pacers, Bruce Brown received six offers in the neighborhood of the non-taxpayer mid-level exception ($12.4MM), according to Scotto, who says other teams with cap room also inquired on the popular free agent guard.
Free Agency Rumors: G. Williams, Hornets, VanVleet, Blazers, Tavares
2023/07/free-agency-rumors-g-williams-hornets-vanvleet-blazers-tavares.htmlThe Hornets are currently operating as an over-the-cap team, which means they could offer up to the full $12.4MM mid-level exception in a deal for Williams. … They have a potential path to creating cap room to make a stronger bid, but it would require renouncing the cap holds for multiple free agents, including their own RFA forwards P.J.
Kings Renegotiate, Extend Domantas Sabonis’ Contract
2023/07/kings-agree-to-renegotiate-extend-domantas-sabonis-contract.htmlVezenkov, who is expected to slot into Sacramento's room exception, wasn't technically a free agent since the club held his draft rights. … Sacramento will use $8.6MM in cap room to give Sabonis a raise on this year's salary - from $22MM to $30.6MM - and will tack on four new years to his expiring contract.
Rockets Sign Jeff Green To Two-Year Contract
2023/07/rockets-to-sign-jeff-green-to-one-year-contract.htmlDepending on how Houston structures its transactions, Green could either be signed into cap space or the room exception. … He was signed into Houston's cap room.