2017-2018 Team Salary Caps

[Vik]

Use this for a quick reference when deciding what team to draft- it is the onus on each GM to actually analysis the individual player salaries as they will be reflected on here only post draft.

You can see some teams will have to use their free drop and potentially a few buyouts/trades to get to the 110m cap limit while other teams have more flexibility but individual analysis is strongly encouraged to see overall player value per a team.

Team                                                    Team Salary                  Draft picks

Cleveland Cavaliers               $135,777,082                  25, 55       
Golden State Warriors            $132,955,238                    28, 58
Oklahoma City Thunder            $130,477,891                    20, 53
Washington Wizards               $122,840,421                   15, 44
Charlotte Hornets            $117,228,164                       11, 41
Los Angeles Clippers               $116,141,747                    13, 43
New Orleans Pelicans               $115,907,328                    22, 51
Toronto Raptors                       $115,391,026                    29, 59
Boston Celtics                       $114,825,547                    27, 57
Houston Rockets               $114,484,312                    30, 60
Portland Trail Blazers               $114,016,865                    24, 54
San Antonio Spurs               $113,237,104                    18, 49
Detroit Pistons                       $113,040,993                    12, 42
Utah Jazz                               $103,837,783                    21, 52
Miami Heat                       $103,753,306                    16, 46
Minnesota Timberwolves            $102,581,006                    19, 48
Denver Nuggets                       $101,779,153                    14, 47
Milwaukee Bucks               $100,039,227                    17, 45
Memphis Grizzlies               $100,033,826                    4, 32
New York Knicks               $98,086,116                      9, 39
Orlando Magic                       $94,946,559                      6, 35           
Los Angeles Lakers               $93,848,506                      10, 40              
Indiana Pacers                       $90,081,320                      23, 50
Philadelphia 76ers               $89,638,648                      26, 56
Brooklyn Nets                       $88,965,468                      8, 38
Dallas Mavericks               $77,926,451                      5, 34
Sacramento Kings               $77,725,702                      2, 36
Phoenix Suns                       $73,955,365                      1, 31
Atlanta Hawks                       $67,426,026                      3, 33
Chicago Bulls                       $63,826,969                      7, 37

Updated numbers we are using are "active cap" https://www.spotrac.com/nba/cap/2017/

You can go to a specific team and go to the 2017-2018 salaries to see what each player is or also look at a multi year perspective for players with varied salaries.

Surprisingly it's impossible to find the list of picks original teams so best I could find was list showing which ones where traded. There is an error here as 29th pick should say via Raptors but I think rest should be accurate

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/2018-nba-draft-order-date-time-where-each-team-is-slated-pick-on-draft-night/

Keep in mind since we are running with 20 teams the actual picks you will have will change once we know which teams are not part of the league as it will be 40 total picks not 60.

         

[Canto]

not to be confuse where come exactly these cap figure, if it have to be the reference ?
for example for SAC, we have here  $95,627,528, but in SPOTRAC we have $90,980,474, including only $77,688,312 of roster cap.
Maybe it would be easier to use only the players cap hit, without dead money and cap holds ?
thanks

[Vik]

not to be confuse where come exactly these cap figure, if it have to be the reference ?
for example for SAC, we have here  $95,627,528, but in SPOTRAC we have $90,980,474, including only $77,688,312 of roster cap.
Maybe it would be easier to use only the players cap hit, without dead money and cap holds ?
thanks

Good suggestion, it is defintiley easier to only use the players cap hit so I will update based on only that later today.

The current total cap numbers is coming from basketball-reference

[Vik]

This will be udpated in the coming days with the proper numbers along with which picks each team has in this year's draft (i.e. each team's original draft position as all picks are being reverted back despite any real life trades).