Salary Cap Issues? (Saltlover)

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45   Kadeem Allen   SG   24   6-3   200   Arizona   
12   Aron Baynes   C   30   6-10   260   Washington State   $4,328,000
26   Jabari Bird   SG   23   6-6   198   California   
7   Jaylen Brown   F   20   6-7   225   California   $4,956,480
30   Gerald Green   SF   31   6-7   205       
20   Gordon Hayward   SF   27   6-8   226   Butler   $29,727,900
42   Al Horford   C   31   6-10   245   Florida   $27,734,406
11   Kyrie Irving   PG   25   6-3   193   Duke   $18,868,626
0   Shane Larkin   PG   24   5-11   175   Miami (FL)   $1,471,382
13   Marcus Morris   PF   27   6-9   235   Kansas   $5,000,000
51   Abdel Nader   SF   23   6-6   230   Iowa State   $1,167,333
37   Semi Ojeleye   PF   22   6-7   235   SMU   $1,291,892
12   Terry Rozier   PG   23   6-2   190   Louisville   $1,988,520
36   Marcus Smart   PG   23   6-4   220   Oklahoma State   $4,538,020
11   Jayson Tatum   SF   19   6-8   205   Duke   $5,645,400
99   Daniel Theis   PF   25   6-9   243       $815,615
98   Guerschon Yabusele   PF   21   6-8   260       $2,247,480

Total: $109,781,054

What gives?

[tazzmaniac]

What is the question?  Teams exceed the cap all the time.  We're still below the luxury tax line. 

[max215]

I can handle this one   . Baynes was signed using the the Room Exception after we went over the cap. Theis and Larkin were signed using minimum exceptions. In the Irving trade, we took in more salary than we sent out. The amount of excess salary we took in was small enough to fit within the financial constraints of trades. We were under the cap, but after signing Hayward, we've made several moves that allow us to add salary, despite being over the cap.