{"id":2142078,"date":"2026-09-13T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2142078"},"modified":"2026-09-13T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T23:04:43","slug":"nba-raises-salary-cap-projections-for-2027-28-giving-cap-strapped-teams-measure-of-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2142078","title":{"rendered":"NBA raises salary-cap projections for 2027-28, giving cap-strapped teams measure of relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Article_ContentContainer__jBNW3 article-content-container bodytext1\">\n<p>The NBA recently informed teams of its updated salary-cap projections for the 2027-28 season, league sources told <em>The Athletic<\/em>, with the new projections coming in $2 million higher than the league\u2019s previous numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Those sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because the projections have not been made public, said the league is now projecting the 2027-28 salary cap will rise to $176 million and the luxury tax line will be $213 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper article-treatment\">\n<div class=\"ad-slug-container\">\n<p class=\"ad-slug\">Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mid1\" data-position=\"mid1\" class=\"ad place-ad\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The news is sweet relief for teams facing salary-cap and apron crunches, as much for the direction as the magnitude.<\/p>\n<div id=\"follows-within-article-root\" class=\"follows-within-article-container\"><\/div>\n<p>    {&#8220;endpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/api-prd-nyt.theathletic.com\/graphql&#8221;,&#8221;wpBaseUrl&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/theathletic.com&#8221;,&#8221;sessionVerificationEndpoint&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/session-verification\/&#8221;,&#8221;graphicUploadsCDN&#8221;:&#8221;https:\/\/graphics-cdn.theathletic.com\/dir&#8221;}<\/p>\n<p>The latest national TV contract was supposed to usher in an era of 10 percent annual salary-cap increases, more than enough to cover the 8 percent raises in contracts given to most star players. Instead, the local TV market crashed so hard that the annual raise was barely half that a year ago (5.2 percent) and was forecast to be similar in 2027-28 (5.5 percent). The projected raise for 2027-28 is now 6.7 percent \u2014 still a far cry from the maximal 10 percent, but closer to the raises in player contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the increased projections flip a recent trend of every cap update from the league shifting future estimates lower, thus making it even more challenging for teams to navigate the aprons in future seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This will also be welcome news for players whose max-contract extensions are tied to the 2027-28 cap number, most notably Victor Wembanyama and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, and it increases the max salary for potential 2027 free agents such as Nikola Joki\u0107 and Jalen Duren.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA recently informed teams of its updated salary-cap projections for the 2027-28 season, league sources told The Athletic, with the new projections coming in $2 million higher than the league\u2019s previous numbers. Those sources, speaking on condition of anonymity because the projections have not been made public, said the league is now projecting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,241],"class_list":["post-2142078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-nytimes-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2142078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2142078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2142078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}