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 Cleveland Cavaliers, 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= $108,898,076
- Partially Guaranteed Salary Commitments= $0
- Non-Guaranteed Salary Commitments= $947,276
- Total Salary Cap Commitments= $109,845,352
- Remaining Cap Room= -$39,845,352
- Amount Over Luxury Tax Line= $25,105,352
Cap Exceptions Available:
- Taxpayer’s Mid-Level Exception= $1,276,000 remaining
Cash Available to Send Out In Trades= $3,400,000
Cash Available to Receive Via Trade= $3,325,000
Last updated: 10/31/15 @ 11:55am
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.
I’m starting to wonder if they’ll only carry 13 guys during the regular season for tax purposes and just call up a player from Canton if somebody gets hurt.
what salary cap exception was used to resign dellavedova. ?mini MLE
Delly signed his qualifying offer, so they didn’t have to use the mini-MLE. They had his Early Bird rights, so they technically used the Early Bird exception to bring him back.
Cool, thanks.