The NBA’s salary cap for 2015/16 has been set at $70MM, which is an 11% increase from this past season, and the luxury tax line will be $84.74MM. The last cap projection from the league had been $67.1MM, and the projection for the tax line had been $81.6MM.
With the October 26th cutoff date to set regular season rosters now past, we at Hoops Rumors are in the process of running down the current salary cap commitments for each NBA franchise for the 2015/16 campaign. Here’s the cap breakdown for the Boston Celtics, whose regular season roster can be viewed here:
- 2015/16 Salary Cap= $70,000,000
- 2015/16 Luxury Tax Line= $84,740,000
- Fully Guaranteed Salary Commitments= $77,479,204*
- Partially Guaranteed Salary Commitments= $75,000**
- Non-Guaranteed Salary Commitments= $0
- Total Salary Cap Commitments= $77,554,204
- Remaining Cap Room= -$7,554,204
- Amount Below Luxury Tax Line= $7,185,796
*Note: This amount includes the $1,706,250 owed to Zoran Dragic, who was waived by the team, and the $2,038,206 owned to Perry Jones III, who was also waived.
**Note: This amount includes the $25K owed to Levi Randolph, Corey Walden and Malcolm Miller, who were waived.
Cap Exceptions Available:
- Room Exception= $2,814,000
Cash Available to Send Out In Trades= $3,430,000
Cash Available to Receive Via Trade= $300,000
Last Update: 10/28/15 @ 4:10pm
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.
In a way, the Amir Johnson contract can function as a quasi-trade exception next summer, but I’m not so sure the Celtics wouldn’t have been better off staying above the cap and keeping their several actual trade exceptions.
The same applies to the Jerebko contract I believe?
Same goes for the Jerebko deal.
what about the 25K owed to Cory Walden??
His cap figure is already included, but I did add his name to the notes to clarify. Thanks!
Curious as to why there is a discrepancy between Jae Crowder’s year-by-year salary on Spotrac and BasketballInsiders???