2015-2016 Salary Cap Rises to $70 Million, Tax-Level to $84.7 Million

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Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
The NBA salary cap has risen to $70M for the 2015-'16 season, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

It was projected to $67M, on July 1 or so it was projected to $69M, and it now seems it'll be $70M. We'll see when further info comes out.

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Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
The NBA's team tax level will be $84.7M, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

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Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
Kawhi Leonard max contract with Spurs now: 5-years, $95.3M.

Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA
With new cap, LaMarcus Aldridge maximum contract with Spurs: Four-years, $84.1M.

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I wonder if that means next year will have an even larger jump too.  Means the C's have about $8.5 million left in cap room after Johnson and Jerebko, but before Crowder and Lee, assuming there's no S&T used on Johnson to preserve trade exceptions.  Anyone have a free agent they want to throw $9 million at?

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I wonder if that means next year will have an even larger jump too.  Means the C's have about $8.5 million left in cap room after Johnson and Jerebko, but before Crowder and Lee, assuming there's no S&T used on Johnson to preserve trade exceptions.  Anyone have a free agent they want to throw $9 million at?

It's pretty irrelevant now who might be out there. My only interest this off season was to get potential and talented players, but those weren't in the cards.

Next season might get interesting though.

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I wonder if that means next year will have an even larger jump too.  Means the C's have about $8.5 million left in cap room after Johnson and Jerebko, but before Crowder and Lee, assuming there's no S&T used on Johnson to preserve trade exceptions.  Anyone have a free agent they want to throw $9 million at?

It's pretty irrelevant now who might be out there. My only interest this off season was to get potential and talented players, but those weren't in the cards.

Next season might get interesting though.

I don't mean to clog up next year's cap.  I'd be fine with another Johnson/Jerebko structured deal to a random free agent.  He's got his warts, but JR Smith is available.  I'm also in favor of spending $8 million of the owners money on some team's salary dump, even if we just cut the guy.  Miami is in repeater tax territory.. Perhaps they'd like to shed some dollars for something.  Maybe LeBron will bless the salary dumping of Miller.

It also makes acquiring someone like Gallo easier.  If you do the trade before Crowder and Lee, you only need to send about $3.4 million back, instead of $7.7 million.  Huh, I just realized Evan Turner makes $3.4 million...

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http://www.nba.com/2015/news/07/08/nba-salary-cap-2016-official-release/index.html

I'm no expert when it comes to the ins and outs of this whole system, but this seems like a pretty big deal, potentially changing where free agents might sign because teams should be willing to give a little more money.