New Salary Cap Tiers And Their Penalties

A handy guide to the new reality facing NBA GMs

May 25, 2024

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The NBA’s new-ish CBA is designed to dissuade teams from continuing to spend their way to contention by issuing progressive restrictions as they pass certain salary tiers. Here are the current projected numbers that NBA GMs will have to manuver around this summer:

Salary cap: $141 million

Luxury tax: $172 million

First tier apron: $178.7 million

Second tie…

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