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2015-16 salary cap set at $70M

Discussion in 'NBA Dish' started by J.R., Jul 8, 2015.

  1. J.R.

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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The NBA salary cap has risen to $70M for the 2015-'16 season, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.</p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/618935659781230592">July 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The NBA's team tax level will be $84.7M, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.</p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/618935960458268672">July 9, 2015</a></blockquote>

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Starting NBA max salaries for 2015-16:
    0-6 years of service: $16,407,500
    7-10: $19,689,000
    10-plus: 22,970,500</p>&mdash; Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/618936704066584576">July 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">More numbers from NBA memo:
    Tax line: $84.74 mil
    MLE: $5.464 mil
    Taxpayer ML: $3.376 mil
    Room ML: $2.814 mil</p>&mdash; Howard Beck (@HowardBeck) <a href="https://twitter.com/HowardBeck/status/618938336649084928">July 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Total players salaries were less than 50.39% of BRI. NBA will make shortfall payment of $57,298,826 to NBPA for distribution to players.</p>&mdash; Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/618938547333124096">July 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nuggets and Magic were under minimum team salary for 2014-15 and players on Nuggets and Magic will be paid $773,884 and $1,919,341.</p>&mdash; Jeff Zillgitt (@JeffZillgitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffZillgitt/status/618938201324060672">July 9, 2015</a></blockquote>
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    Wow! Thats even more than the latest estimations!
     
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    Just think about the steals the Rockets were able to get their FA's for...
     

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