The NBA salary limit is expected to increase by 10 percent for the 2025-26 season, according to Bobby Marks of ESPN.
That means an increase of $ 140.6 million this season to $ 154.6 million next season. The luxury tax is set at $ 187.9 million, the first apron at $ 195.9 million and the second apron at $ 207.8 million.
Teams that have been able to avoid the luxury tax this season receive $ 11.5 million of the 10 tax payment teams.
No team projects to have more Cap Room this summer than the Brooklyn Nets. They are also the only team that is expected to have enough money to offer a maximum contract. The Detroit suckers are a distant second.
Different teams will want to become CAP compatible
The Phoenix Suns are at the top of the list of teams that want to make changes this summer to prevent the second apron. This season has been a disaster from the point of view of expectations. The team even investigated the trade in Kevin Durant at the Handelsdeadline and it is expected that it will be moved in the summer.
Milwaukee is another team that needs to be followed. Especially in the light of the Damian Lillard injury news, the team could be confronted with a number of difficult choices in the summer, depending on the severity of his diagnosis.
Anyway, this is a team that dived the second apron by trading Khris Middleton to the Washington Wizards. Property may want to dive further under the tax if it does not see a real path to Stelling.
Although there are no changes this season and probably the next, the Boston Celtics are on their way to a very expensive tax assessment. Not to mention the fact that the team has completed a sale and will take over the new ownership quickly enough.
Jayson Tatum signed an extension of $ 314 million for five years last summer. Jaylen Brown drew an extension of five years, $ 304 million the summer before.
Current Celtics owner WYC Grousbeck has made a recent proclamation that indicated will be inevitable.
“You can’t stay in the second apron,” said Grousbeck on the Greg Hill show on WEEI Radio. “Nobody will do it. I predict for the next 40 years of SMEs, nobody will stay in the second apron more than two years.
