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Originally posted on Hoops Rumors | By Luke Adams | Last updated 8/3/21
Now that the NBA has set its salary cap for the 2021-22 league year at $109,140,000, we have a clear idea of what maximum-salary contracts will look like for the coming season. Conveniently, the cap increase came in at almost exactly 3%, which is precisely what the NBA had been forecasting all year, so our projections won’t change much.
Listed below are the maximum-salary contracts for players signing contracts that start in 2021-22. The first chart shows the maximum salaries for a player re-signing with his own team a player’s previous team can offer five years instead of four, and 8% annual raises instead of 5% raises. The second chart shows the maximum salaries for a player signing with a new team.
NBA Free Agency Winners and Losers after the first 24 hours by Aaron Robinson Updated On: August 3, 2021, 5:37 pm ET
It has been an eventful first 24 hours of free agency with many teams making significant improvements to their roster to put themselves in position to take a leap heading into next season. There were also some teams who took a swing and a miss and did not land any of their preferred targets. Today, we’re going to dive into what teams made the biggest splash on day one of free agency, and what teams still have some work to do to bolster their roster.
Bradley Beal.
Beyond the city of Los Angeles, there has been a lot of movement around the league as free agency kicks off. Leading the way, NBA Champion
Kyle Lowry is expected to leave Toronto after spending a decade with the franchise. He hopes that joining the Miami Heat will increase his chances of winning another ring. Elsewhere, Oklahoma City Thunder Center
Al Horford is expected to return to Boston in exchange for
Kemba Walker. Flying under the radar, rising star
Devonte Graham is moving from Charlotte to New Orleans.
While many players are moving from team to team, others are working to finalize deals with their current teams.
NBA free agency news has been booming since it began on August 2 at 3PM EST, and plenty of guys have either been on the move or inked contracts to stay loyal to their current team. DeMar DeRozan joined Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic on the Bulls, Chris Paul will still be a member of the Suns by the time he is 40 years old, and Stephen Curry became the first player in NBA history to sign two $200-plus million deals. While a lot of players have cemented their status before the start of this upcoming season come October, there are plenty of names both big and small that have yet to reach a final landing spot. Below, I’ll break down the top 10 free agents whose statuses are still up in the air thus far.