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 Los Angeles Clippers, 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= $95,505,710*
- Partially Guaranteed Salary Commitments= $0
- Non-Guaranteed Salary Commitments= $947,276
- Total Salary Cap Commitments= $96,452,986
- Remaining Cap Room= -$26,452,986
- Amount Above Luxury Tax Line= $12,622,657
*Note: This amount includes the $650,000 owed to Carlos Delfino, the $510,922 owed to Jordan Farmar, and the $252,042 owed to Miroslav Raduljica, all of whom were waived via the stretch provision.
Cap Exceptions Available:
- None
Cash Available to Send Out In Trades= $3,400,000
Cash Available to Receive Via Trade= $3,400,000
Last updated: 11/4/15 @ 6:45pm
The Basketball Insiders salary pages were used in the creation of this post.
The Delfino and Raduljica stretch provision payments show how the Spencer Hawes contract haunts the Clippers even after he’s gone. The Clips wouldn’t have been compelled to trade with the Bucks for them last summer if they hadn’t been hard-capped, and they wouldn’t have been hard-capped if they hadn’t signed Hawes. The Farmar signing via the biannual exception was technically a hard-cap trigger, too, but if Hawes isn’t taking up the mid-level, they could have used the mini-mid-level on Farmar.