With the NBA trade deadline now passed, teams are focusing on locking down playoff spots or vying for a better chance in the draft lottery. Outside of the players who are added on 10-day deals, or those lucky enough to turn those auditions into long-term contracts, teams’ rosters are relatively set for the remainder of the season.
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 $68MM, 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 by taking a look at the Nets’ cap outlook for 2015/16…
Here are the players with guaranteed contracts:
- Bojan Bogdanovic — $3,425,510
- Jarrett Jack — $6.3MM
- Joe Johnson — $24,894,863
- Sergey Karasev — $1,599,840
- Mason Plumlee — $1,415,520
- Deron Williams — $21,042,800
Here are the players with non-guaranteed contracts:
- Markel Brown — $845,059
- Cory Jefferson — $845,059
- Darius Morris — $1,015,421
Players with options:
- Alan Anderson (Player Option) — $1,333,484
- Brook Lopez (Player Option) — $16,744,218
- Thaddeus Young (Early Termination Option) — $10,221,739
The Nets’ Cap Summary for 2015/16:
- Guaranteed Salary: $58,678,233
- Options/Non-Guaranteed Salary: $31,004,980
- Total: $89,683,213
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.