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The salary floor was brought up a few days ago, but I hadn’t seen a breakdown of how it would actually affect the Spurs this year with the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA). [This is from a Forbes article](https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonyeast/2023/05/31/how-the-new-nba-collective-bargaining-agreement-impacts-the-indiana-pacers/?sh=3f902c8b48b4) about the implications:
>The minimum team salary (a.k.a salary floor, which is set at 90% of the salary cap) regulations have slightly changed. If a team is short of the salary floor on the first day of the NBA regular season, then a few things happen.
* **The organization will have to pay the difference between their total team salary and the minimum team salary to the NBA, and the league will distribute those funds to every player in the league.** The old CBA stated that those dollars would go to the players on the team that is below the floor.
* **The franchise will not receive a luxury tax distribution from tax paying teams**. That’s a significant amount of revenue for a team to potentially lose. In 2023-24, this rule will pay teams 50% of the tax distribution as the CBA is eased in.
* **The difference between a team’s total salary and the salary floor will be added to a team’s salary cap situation as a cap hold.** This makes signings limited to 10% of the salary cap during the season for a team that enters the campaign below the floor.
[The salary cap is $136M this year](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/37893498/nba-salary-cap-projections-show-greater-increases-sources-say). To reach 90% of that would mean a salary floor of $122.4M. The Spurs currently have $84.2M on the books for 10 players as well as dead cap from the waiving of Josh Pr\*mo. Assume Vic will get the 20% raise on his rookie deal which means he’ll make approximately [$12M this season](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-much-victor-wembanyama-and-the-2023-nba-draft-picks-will-earn-on-their-rookie-contracts-2ba8710f). Throw in Cissoko, Bediako, and Rice’s two-way deal and that’ll add pretty minimal salary to get team at about $100M. That’s 13 regular roster spots (assuming Bediako is in there).
Unless the Spurs FO wants to lose out on luxury tax payments, pay other teams’ players, and be limited in their cap flexibility, they have a lot of reasons to hit that salary floor this year. Re-signing Tre Jones at around $10M/year will get them about halfway there. With that baked into the pie, there’s still plenty of space (if not much roster space) to hit the salary floor.
Would you rather the Spurs hit the floor via trade or signing? Post your ideas here.
by SanAntonioGramsci
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I’m available
It’s always possible that the FO will frontload a contract for someone, maybe Tre Jones. Could also extend offers to RFAs and try to get someone that way.
i like Poeltls.
Give Brook Lopez a 2 year $50M deal. Fuck it give him $60M idc. He’d been a fantastic front court vet and running mate with Wemby, and by giving him only 2 years of contract we’d still preserve our flexibility in the long term (and even potentially be able to use his contract to match salaries for a star, should one become available in a trade).
What a good problem to have!
I’m a Barca fan. There are worse problems to have lol.
Overpay your young guys due for an extension by front loading (Tre Jones)
Sign a bunch of vets to bloated 1 or 2 year deals to get back to the floor
they should have like 3 roster spots open? Assuming Tre Jones comes back, and rice, Cissoko, and Bediako get 2 ways. 1 rotational guy at like 6-8 mil (I would like Donte divincenzo’s fit) and 2 vet min guys can get you there solidly
This is why we throw money at Poeltl or Raves. No reason not to
Jakob, Tre and…Schroeder.
Those dudes all know their roles and Jak and Schroeder will help the defense immensely.
This new CBA is going to get some random players get huge 1 year deals. Like guys who would probably be around 4-6 mil a year are going to sign contracts worth 1 year 15 mil
Front ending Devin will help. Similar to Keldon. You don’t see many front ended contracts around the league and if we’re able to get Devin on one now, we’re going to be very healthy in a couple of years.
Obviously we need more, but it’s a start.
I don’t know what they will do, but I’m very confident that the Spurs won’t leave money on the table. We have the best run organization in the league.
Take DA from us