The NBA’s salary cap has been steadily rising over the course of the past few years thanks to an extremely lucrative television deal, as well as the league being extraordinarily popular all over the world.
Other than Michael Jordan’s heyday, it seems that the NBA right now is maybe the healthiest it has ever been from a marketing standpoint.
Almost all NBA teams are stacked with talent from top to bottom, and even ones that are purposefully tanking, such as the New York Knicks and (more recently) the Los Angeles Lakers, are in desirable markets in some of the most iconic cities in the world.
Though the NBA playoffs will lack the presence of one LeBron James for the first time since the 2004-05 season – his second in the NBA – the league’s salary cap is expected to jump again this offseason by $10 million. However, according to reporting from Shams Charania of The Athletic, the 2020-21 salary cap will apparently come in under estimations:
The NBA has informed its teams of updated projected salary cap and tax level that is unchanged in 2019-20 ($109M/$132M) — and $2M lower in 2020-21 ($116M/$141M), sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 5, 2019
Despite having only a $2 million difference in the 2020-21 season, this will have a widespread impact on various salaries – such as minimum contracts, rookie-scale deals, and more.
Stay tuned as more information on the NBA’s changing salary cap becomes available.
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