Brooklyn Nets
2026-27 Cap Sheet • Eastern • Atlantic
Under the Cap
Cap Space / Cap Room
Fundamentals
The difference between a team's current salary and the salary cap. Teams with cap space can sign free agents or absorb salary in trades without sending matching salary out.
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Under the Cap
Cap Space / Cap Room
Fundamentals
The difference between a team's current salary and the salary cap. Teams with cap space can sign free agents or absorb salary in trades without sending matching salary out.
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Tom Dundon's Dream Team
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Scenario Trades (2)
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Trade with BKN, DET
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Sent: Day'Ron Sharpe
Received: Clint Capela
Picks in: Swap: less favorable of NOP/POR 2027 2nd, Swap: less favorable of BKN/DAL 2027 2nd
TPE: $3.0M
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Trade with BKN
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Received: Ariel Hukporti
Team Salary
$160.5M
97.3% of cap
Salary Cap
Salary Cap
Fundamentals
The maximum amount a team can spend on player salaries, set annually by the NBA based on Basketball Related Income (BRI). For 2025-26, the salary cap is $154,647,000. Unlike the NFL, the NBA's cap is a "soft cap" — teams can exceed it using various exceptions.
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$165.0M
Cap Space
Cap Space / Cap Room
Fundamentals
The difference between a team's current salary and the salary cap. Teams with cap space can sign free agents or absorb salary in trades without sending matching salary out.
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$4.5M
Tax Line
Luxury Tax Line
Thresholds
The salary threshold above which teams must pay the luxury tax. Set at $187,895,000 for 2025-26. Separate from the salary cap — a team can be over the cap without paying tax.
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$201.0M
Tax Bill
Luxury Tax
Fundamentals
A dollar-for-dollar (or more) penalty paid by teams whose total salary exceeds the luxury tax line. For 2025-26, the tax line is $187,895,000. Tax rates increase with each bracket and are higher for repeat offenders.
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$0
Roster
Roster Limits
Roster
NBA teams can carry up to 15 players on standard contracts plus up to 3 two-way contracts (18 total). The minimum is 14 on opening day and 13 during the season. If a team has fewer than 12 players, an incomplete roster charge is assessed for each missing spot.
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16/15
+3/3
Cap Position
Cap
Tax
1st
2nd
Cap
Salary Cap
Fundamentals
The maximum amount a team can spend on player salaries, set annually by the NBA based on Basketball Related Income (BRI). For 2025-26, the salary cap is $154,647,000. Unlike the NFL, the NBA's cap is a "soft cap" — teams can exceed it using various exceptions.
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$165.0M
Tax
Luxury Tax Line
Thresholds
The salary threshold above which teams must pay the luxury tax. Set at $187,895,000 for 2025-26. Separate from the salary cap — a team can be over the cap without paying tax.
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$201.0M
1st Apron
First Apron
Thresholds
The first tax apron ($195,945,000 in 2025-26) restricts teams from using the non-taxpayer MLE, bi-annual exception, sign-and-trades to acquire players, and prior-year TPEs. Teams above the first apron can only take back 100% of outgoing salary in trades.
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$209.0M
2nd Apron
Second Apron
Thresholds
The second tax apron ($207,824,000 in 2025-26) imposes the strictest restrictions. Teams above it cannot: aggregate salaries in trades, send cash in trades, use any MLE, send players via sign-and-trade, or trade first-round picks 7 years out. Their distant first-round picks are also "frozen."
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$222.0M
Team $160.5M
Season
Swipe salaries to change year. Contract totals include remaining option years, not cap holds.
| # | Player | Pos | Age | 26-27 | 27-28 | 28-29 | 29-30 | 30-31 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Michael Porter Jr.
|
SF | 28 | $40.8M | $41.3M | — | — | — |
| 2 |
Julius Randle
|
PF | 31 | $33.3M | $35.8M PO | $53.7M | — | — |
| 3 |
Terance Mann
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SG | 29 | $15.5M | $16.0M | $30.4M | — | — |
| 4 |
Keon Ellis
|
SG | 26 | $9.0M | $9.0M TO | $11.7M | — | — |
| 5 |
Moritz Wagner
|
C | 29 | $9.0M | $9.5M | $18.0M | — | — |
| 6 |
Mikel Brown Jr.
|
PG | 20 | $8.8M | $9.2M | $9.7M TO | $12.3M TO | $36.8M |
| 7 |
Egor Demin
|
SG | 20 | $7.2M | $7.6M TO | $9.6M TO | $28.9M | — |
| 8 |
Clint Capela
via POR
|
C | 32 | $7.0M | $7.4M | $8.8M | — | — |
| 9 |
Noah Clowney
|
PF | 22 | $5.4M | $16.2M | — | — | — |
| 10 |
Josh Minott
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SF | 23 | $4.5M | $4.5M TO NG | $8.6M | — | — |
| 11 |
Nolan Traore
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PG | 20 | $4.0M | $4.2M TO | $6.5M TO | $19.4M | — |
| 12 |
Drake Powell
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SF | 21 | $3.5M | $3.7M TO | $6.1M TO | $18.3M | — |
| 13 |
Ariel Hukporti
via POR
|
C | 24 | $3.4M | $4.1M | — | — | — |
| 14 |
Ben Saraf
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PG | 20 | $3.0M | $3.2M TO | $5.7M | $17.2M | — |
| 15 |
Joshua Jefferson
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PF | 22 | $3.0M | $3.1M | $3.3M TO | $5.9M TO | $17.7M |
| 16 |
Danny Wolf
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C | 22 | $2.9M | $3.1M TO | $5.6M TO | $16.7M | — |
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Two-Way Contracts
(3 of 3 slots • not counted against the cap or the 15-man roster)
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| — |
Tyler Bilodeau
Two-Way
|
PF | 22 | $678K | — | — | — | — |
| — |
Chaney Johnson
Two-Way
|
SG | 24 | $678K | — | — | — | — |
| — |
Grant Nelson
Two-Way
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PF | 24 | $678K | — | — | — | — |
| Total | $160.5M ($160.5M) | $116.2M ($177.8M) | $46.4M ($177.6M) | $18.2M ($118.6M) | $0 ($54.5M) | |||
| Cap Space | $4.5M | $3.7M | $22.1M | $101.0M | $187.1M | |||
| 1st Apron Space | $48.5M | $113.7M | $206.5M | $260.0M | $306.0M | |||
| 2nd Apron Space | $61.5M | $128.0M | $222.2M | $277.3M | $325.0M | |||
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Regular = under contract • Orange
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Cap Hold
Fundamentals
A placeholder amount charged against a team's cap for free agents whose rights they hold. Cap holds count toward team salary even though no contract exists. Teams must renounce a player's rights to remove the cap hold, but doing so means losing the ability to re-sign that player using Bird rights.
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• Blue
= projected/edited • Struck
= option declined • PO
Player Opt • TO
Team Opt • ETO
Early Term • NG
= non-guaranteed •
Cap projections assume ~10% annual growth