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 Rockets’ cap outlook for 2015/16…
Here are the players with guaranteed contracts:
- Trevor Ariza — $8,193,030
- Clint Capela — $1,242,720
- Joey Dorsey — $1,015,421
- James Harden — $15,756,438
- Dwight Howard — $22,359,364
- Nick Johnson — $845,059
- Terrence Jones — $2,489,530
- Donatas Motiejunas — $2,288,205
Here are the players with non-guaranteed contracts:
- Pablo Prigioni — $1,734,572 ($290K Guaranteed)
Players with options:
- Kostas Papanikolaou (Team Option) — $4,797,664
The Rockets’ Cap Summary for 2015/16:
- Guaranteed Salary: $54,479,767
- Options/Non-Guaranteed Salary: $6,242,236
- Total: $60,722,003
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.