From $107 million to $102 million to $103 million to... the NBA’s 2017-18 salary-cap projection appears to be honing in on a more specific range.
Eric Pincus of Basketball Insiders:
Told by multiple folks now, NBA has reduced it's salary cap estimate from $103 mil back to $102 mil for 2017-18, tax $122 mil @BBallInsiders
— Eric Pincus (@EricPincus) February 1, 2017
The exact salary cap is always important. Every year, teams try to make moves that are barely allowed or barely not allowed.
But the 2017-18 salary cap is particularly important.
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement sets exact amounts for things like the mid-level exception and minimum salary. For the rest of the CBA, those change by the same percentage the salary cap changes.
So, if the exceptions/minimum salaries/etc. take up a particularly small or large percentage of next season’s cap, they’ll take up a particularly small or large percentage of every seasons’ cap for the duration of the CBA.
