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 is fixed at $84.74MM. Only five NBA teams are currently under the salary cap, while eight franchises are currently in danger of having to pay luxury tax at the end of the season. We at Hoops Rumors broke down the cap commitments for each franchise, and listed below is how each franchise ranks for total projected payroll in descending order. You can also click on each individual team name to see the franchise’s complete cap rundown for this campaign.
- Cleveland Cavaliers: $109,845,352
- Oklahoma City Thunder: $97,157,411
- Los Angeles Clippers: $96,452,986
- Golden State Warriors: $95,487,927
- Miami Heat: $90,269,303
- Chicago Bulls: $89,024,375
- Houston Rockets: $87,263,972
- San Antonio Spurs: $86,393,645
- Brooklyn Nets: $83,332,111
- Memphis Grizzlies: $82,491,067
- New Orleans Pelicans: $81,680,265
- Washington Wizards: $81,495,782
- Boston Celtics: $77,554,204
- Charlotte Hornets: $76,792,845
- Detroit Pistons: $76,654,794
- Phoenix Suns: $74,555,313
- New York Knicks: $73,780,604
- Sacramento Kings: $72,671,296
- Dallas Mavericks: $72,544,449
- Milwaukee Bucks: $72,323,736
- Indiana Pacers: $72,146,260
- Toronto Raptors: $71,969,710
- Los Angeles Lakers: $71,965,372
- Atlanta Hawks: $71,547,369
- Minnesota Timberwolves: $71,466,973
- Denver Nuggets: $68,615,742
- Orlando Magic: $68,460,002
- Utah Jazz: $62,736,415
- Philadelphia 76ers: $59,874,618
- Portland Trail Blazers: $49,375,118
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.
blazers team salary comes in under 45 mil, so, it’s counting money off the roster, and one of their players is listed as getting paid half the league minimum, montero, however that was managed…ironic, paul allen, who is one of the top fifty or sixty richest men in the world, has the lowest team salary by over ten million and, by my calculations, a whopping 25 mil under the salary cap…Way to go King Paul, way to go. BTW, where’s your philanthropy, the kind the serfs used to enjoy back in the gilded age of robber barons.