With the NBA trade deadline 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 $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 Clippers’ cap outlook for 2015/16…
Here are the players with guaranteed contracts:
- Carlos Delfino (Stretch Provision) — $650K
- Jordan Farmar (Stretch Provision) — $510,922
- Blake Griffin — $18,907,725
- Spencer Hawes — $5,543,725
- Chris Paul — $21,468,696
- Miroslav Raduljica (Stretch Provision) — $252,042
- J.J. Redick — $7,085,000
- C.J. Wilcox — $1,159,680
Here are the players with non-guaranteed contracts:
- Matt Barnes — $3,542,500 ($1MM Guaranteed)
- Jamal Crawford — $5,675,000 ($1.5MM Guaranteed)
- Jordan Hamilton — $1,015,421
Players with options:
- None
The Clippers’ Cap Summary for 2015/16:
- Guaranteed Salary: $58,077,790
- Options/Non-Guaranteed Salary: $7,732,921
- Total: $65,810,711
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.