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Salary cap projection next year

Per Eric Pincus of Basketball Insiders, the salary cap is still projected to be $101 million for next season, with a luxury tax of $123 million.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In a memo to teams, the NBA has NOT changed it's preseason salary cap projection, it remains at $101 mil for 2018-19 and 108 mil for 2019-20. Tax at $123 mil and $131 mil, respectively. Typically, there's variance in the pre/post projection but not this year</p>— Eric Pincus (@EricPincus) <a href="

">April 16, 2018</a></blockquote>

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The Pistons have $114.5 million guaranteed (counting Bullock), $116.3 million (counting Bullock and Moreland), and $117.3 million (counting Bullock, Moreland, and a 2nd rounder). That's $5.6 million under the salary cap with 12 players.




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