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Atlantic Division: Tell us any noteworthy detail, how your real life team's regime is likely to operate, who will be traded, what you're looking for in draft/free agency, etc.

Boston Celtics

Jayson Tatum $54,126,450
Jaylen Brown $52,142,264
Jrue Holiday $32,400,000
Kristaps Porzingis $30,731,707
Derrick White $28,100,000
Sam Hauser $10,044,644
Payton Pritchard $7,232,143
Baylor Scheierman $2,619,000
Xavier Tillman $2,546,675
Neemias Queta $2,349,578
J.D. Davison $2,270,735
Jordan Walsh $2,221,677
28th Overall Pick $2,783,880

Total Team Salary 229,568,753
Incomplete Roster Charge -
Adjusted Team Salary (for Cap) 229,568,753
Salary Cap 154,600,000
Cap Space (74,968,753)
Luxury Tax Threshold 187,900,000
Space Below Luxury Tax (41,668,753)
Projected Luxury Tax Bill In Luxury Tax
First Tax Apron 195,900,000
Space Below First Apron (33,668,753)
Second Tax Apron 207,800,000
Space Below Second Apron (21,768,753)

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Brooklyn Nets

Player Name Salary (2025-26)
Nic Claxton $25,352,272
Cameron Johnson $20,543,478
Noah Clowney $3,398,640
Dariq Whitehead $3,262,560
Keon Johnson $2,349,578
Maxwell Lewis $2,221,677
Jalen Wilson $2,221,677
Tyrese Martin $2,191,897
Drew Timme $1,955,377
Cameron Thomas Cap Hold $12,123,747
8th Overall Pick $6,889,200
19th Overall Pick $3,811,560
26th Overall Pick $2,884,560
27th Overall Pick $2,801,280

Total Team Salary 92,007,503
Incomplete Roster Charge -
Adjusted Team Salary (for Cap) 92,007,503
Salary Cap 154,600,000
Cap Space 62,592,497
Luxury Tax Threshold 187,900,000
Space Below Luxury Tax 95,892,497
Projected Luxury Tax Bill Below Luxury Tax
First Tax Apron 195,900,000
Space Below First Apron 103,892,497
Second Tax Apron 207,800,000
Space Below Second Apron 115,792,497

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New York Knicks

Player Name Salary (2025-26)
Karl-Anthony Towns $53,142,264
OG Anunoby $39,568,966
Jalen Brunson $34,944,001
Mikal Bridges $24,900,000
Josh Hart $19,472,240
Mitchell Robinson $12,954,546
Miles McBride $4,333,333
P.J. Tucker $3,468,960
Pacome Dadiet $2,847,600
Tyler Kolek $2,191,897
Ariel Hukporti $1,955,377

Total Team Salary 199,779,184
Incomplete Roster Charge 1,272,869
Adjusted Team Salary (for Cap) 201,052,053
Salary Cap 154,600,000
Cap Space (46,452,053)
Luxury Tax Threshold 187,900,000
Space Below Luxury Tax (13,152,053)
Projected Luxury Tax Bill In Luxury Tax
First Tax Apron 195,900,000
Space Below First Apron (5,152,053)
Second Tax Apron 207,800,000
Space Below Second Apron 6,747,947

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Philadelphia 76ers

Joel Embiid $55,224,526
Paul George $51,666,090
Tyrese Maxey $37,958,760
Kelly Oubre Jr. $8,382,150
Andre Drummond $5,000,000
Jared McCain $4,221,360
Eric Gordon $3,468,960
Lonnie Walker IV $2,940,876
Jared Butler $2,349,578
Rick Council IV $2,221,677
Adem Bona $1,955,377
Justin Edwards $1,955,377
3rd Overall Pick $11,108,880

Total Team Salary 188,453,611
Incomplete Roster Charge -
Adjusted Team Salary (for Cap) 188,453,611
Salary Cap 154,600,000
Cap Space (33,853,611)
Luxury Tax Threshold 187,900,000
Space Below Luxury Tax (553,611)
Projected Luxury Tax Bill In Luxury Tax
First Tax Apron 195,900,000
Space Below First Apron 7,446,389
Second Tax Apron 207,800,000
Space Below Second Apron 19,346,389

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Toronto Raptors

Scottie Barnes $38,661,700
Brandon Ingram $38,095,238
Immanuel Quickley $32,500,000
R.J. Barrett $27,705,357
Jakob Poeltl $19,500,000
Ochai Agbaji $6,383,525
Gradey Dick $4,990,560
Ja'Kobe Walter $3,638,160
A.J. Lawson $2,270,735
Colin Castleton $2,191,897
Jamison Battle $1,955,377
Jonathan Mogbo $1,955,377
Jamal Shead $1,955,377
9th Overall Pick $6,332,520

Total Team Salary 188,135,823
Incomplete Roster Charge -
Adjusted Team Salary (for Cap) 188,135,823
Salary Cap 154,600,000
Cap Space (33,535,823)
Luxury Tax Threshold 187,900,000
Space Below Luxury Tax (235,823)
Projected Luxury Tax Bill In Luxury Tax
First Tax Apron 195,900,000
Space Below First Apron 7,764,177
Second Tax Apron 207,800,000
Space Below Second Apron 19,664,177

Lawson and castleton are unguaranteed and one or both of them will be replaced by a 2nd round pick contract so we duck the tax (1.3 vs 2.2M i believe)

Godaddycurse wrote:Lawson and castleton are unguaranteed and one or both of them will be replaced by a 2nd round pick contract so we duck the tax (1.3 vs 2.2M i believe)

Good input, thanks!

What is Toronto looking to accomplish this off-season as a whole?

Like I said in the other thread, I don't pretend to be an expert on all teams. Just what I think the teams should do for next year only.

Celtics - Unfortunately, you might have to punt the year. Let Tatum recover. Porzingis and Holiday are not going to be on your team three years from now. Get what you can for those two guys. Let Brown, Pritchard and White go crazy. Maybe they can get lucky and have one of those Tim Duncan Spurs years, where they had to take one year off and got lucky in the lottery. Reload for 2026-2027.

Knicks - They may have the best starting five in the NBA. The season hasn't ended the way they hoped, but with Boston taking a step back, they should easily win their division next year. Find out how to maybe build the bench a bit so Thibs doesn't have to run his starters into the ground, but he probably will anyway.

76ers - Don't trade the #3 pick. Draft Ace Bailey and hope he can quickly become a 20 ppg scorer. This team needs solid production on a rookie contract. Hope Embiid and George can give you something and move them next off-season for assets. Build around the trio of Bailey, McCain, Maxey as the faces of the next 76ers team. The GM will absolutely not do this, he seems to be one of the only people left that thinks emptying the roster and throwing money at old free agents is still the way to build a team.

Raptors - I actually liked the move to get and resign Ingram. The Raptors have accepted that they aren't going to sign free agents. I love the city of Toronto and would live there over half of the American cities that have NBA teams, but I'm a 45 year old white guy, not a young, black rich athlete. Canada just isn't appealing. I'd try to upgrade the point guard position if I could, but you could do a lot worse than a core featuring Barnes, Barrett, Ingram and Dick.

Nets - They chose the rebuild path, so commit to it. Don't use your cap space on long term contracts. Maybe sign Josh Giddey for something like 3/90 and that's it. Let him get his stats, run the show, and use all of your draft picks. Draft guys with upside with your late firsts, like Hugo Gonzalez. Let someone else sign Cam Thomas. Trade Cameron Johnson. His value will never be higher. Aim to develop your four draft picks and hope the lottery balls bounce your way so you can get Dybanasta or Peterson next year.

BigGargamel wrote:Celtics - Unfortunately, you might have to punt the year. Let Tatum recover. Porzingis and Holiday are not going to be on your team three years from now. Get what you can for those two guys. Let Brown, Pritchard and White go crazy. Maybe they can get lucky and have one of those Tim Duncan Spurs years, where they had to take one year off and got lucky in the lottery. Reload for 2026-2027.

About Boston exclusively.

You are 100% right.,

Ideally the team picks up a few young kids, or cast offs and with loads of minutes, they grow into a MIP candidate and we have a winner on our hands.


But ideally, rest brown, rest white, let youth play bunches, get a good pick and come out swinging the following season.


I also think that those things are very possible and doable.

NYG wrote:

Godaddycurse wrote:Lawson and castleton are unguaranteed and one or both of them will be replaced by a 2nd round pick contract so we duck the tax (1.3 vs 2.2M i believe)

Good input, thanks!

What is Toronto looking to accomplish this off-season as a whole?

get a back up big, draft BPA (if guard/wing then trade one of gradey or agbaji)

Godaddycurse wrote:

NYG wrote:

Godaddycurse wrote:Lawson and castleton are unguaranteed and one or both of them will be replaced by a 2nd round pick contract so we duck the tax (1.3 vs 2.2M i believe)

Good input, thanks!

What is Toronto looking to accomplish this off-season as a whole?

get a back up big, draft BPA (if guard/wing then trade one of gradey or agbaji)

I was going to say that Masai will draft/sign two more shooting guards because TOR only has 10 guys who can play SG, so Masai is worried about running short . . .


Hope you're right: draft BPA; add a big; duck the tax.

I wouldn't be surprised if they go into the season with an unbalanced roster and a bit over the tax, and duck under the tax at the TDL. But I just look at this roster, compare it to the teams that played beyond the first round this spring, and think "yeah, they're not like those teams". Healthy, I think TOR can win around half of their games, but against a good team in the playoffs they'd be ridiculously easy to scout and game plan against.

My hope: Ingram regains some value and is flipped for more value. At least one of the kids on the bench improves and plays so well that they force their way into the starting line-up -- and that results in another of the BI/RJ/IQ trio going out at the TDL, with TOR retaining whichever of those 3 has the least trade value.

Nets: Marks has historically been very active with trades within 48 hours of the draft. Of course many of those years involved getting into the draft because they didn't have picks. This year, with 4 picks, the need is different. Marks is on record that he'll only trade up for a specific player, not a pick, so I don't know if we'll hear of a trade up trade pre-draft. If another tea is trying to trade into the draft using future picks, I could see that type of deal happening ahead of time. As for type, the prevailing thought is that he'll take big swings at high upside guys. He's done it in the past, but typically those guys also had one super skill/strength that would make them at worst (if other aspects don't develop) a specialist.

I expect him to drive a very hard bargain in salary dump negotiations. The Nets are the only team with a significant amount of cap space, and the only team that can essentially issue a get out of tax/apron jail free card to other teams. I expect he won't entertain small dumps until after he's used up most of the cap space on larger ones. Getting an overpaid good veteran and a pick like they did with Demarre Carroll years ago is the ideal scenario.

I'd like us to pursue Turner or Reid in FA, and flip Claxton for a future asset. Their shooting offers a more versatile fit with future draft picks or stars, where as Claxton is great within his role if surrounded by shooting. I don't think Cam Johnson gets moved unless it's a very good value offer. With so many rookies coming in, having some good veteran mentors/leaders is essential. The best way to tank is to lack ball handling & true PG play (like we had for most of this year), but that's also a great way to stifle the development of young players, especially bigs. I'd think the Nets will not go all in move-wise to win next year, but they're not going to deliberately tank either.

BigGargamel wrote:Like I said in the other thread, I don't pretend to be an expert on all teams. Just what I think the teams should do for next year only.

Celtics - Unfortunately, you might have to punt the year. Let Tatum recover. Porzingis and Holiday are not going to be on your team three years from now. Get what you can for those two guys. Let Brown, Pritchard and White go crazy. Maybe they can get lucky and have one of those Tim Duncan Spurs years, where they had to take one year off and got lucky in the lottery. Reload for 2026-2027.

Knicks - They may have the best starting five in the NBA. The season hasn't ended the way they hoped, but with Boston taking a step back, they should easily win their division next year. Find out how to maybe build the bench a bit so Thibs doesn't have to run his starters into the ground, but he probably will anyway.

76ers - Don't trade the #3 pick. Draft Ace Bailey and hope he can quickly become a 20 ppg scorer. This team needs solid production on a rookie contract. Hope Embiid and George can give you something and move them next off-season for assets. Build around the trio of Bailey, McCain, Maxey as the faces of the next 76ers team. The GM will absolutely not do this, he seems to be one of the only people left that thinks emptying the roster and throwing money at old free agents is still the way to build a team.

Raptors - I actually liked the move to get and resign Ingram. The Raptors have accepted that they aren't going to sign free agents. I love the city of Toronto and would live there over half of the American cities that have NBA teams, but I'm a 45 year old white guy, not a young, black rich athlete. Canada just isn't appealing. I'd try to upgrade the point guard position if I could, but you could do a lot worse than a core featuring Barnes, Barrett, Ingram and Dick.

Nets - They chose the rebuild path, so commit to it. Don't use your cap space on long term contracts. Maybe sign Josh Giddey for something like 3/90 and that's it. Let him get his stats, run the show, and use all of your draft picks. Draft guys with upside with your late firsts, like Hugo Gonzalez. Let someone else sign Cam Thomas. Trade Cameron Johnson. His value will never be higher. Aim to develop your four draft picks and hope the lottery balls bounce your way so you can get Dybanasta or Peterson next year.

Pretty reasonable for all

All of the messaging around the Sixers is that they’re either staying at 3 or interested in small moves back without trading out of the lottery area.

They’re in no position to pay to dump PG’s deal whatsoever. If Embiid has a miracle recovery, they’re better off keeping him. If the overwhelmingly likely outcome happens and he’s cooked, they’re on a rebuilding timeline anyway and need their picks. Not one credible reporter has said they’re interested in doing this.

I think the Knicks roster and coaching situation isn’t as fixed in place as the playoff record would suggest and there is a legit chance one or two of the starting five get moved.

For the Raptor I think there is an argument RJ could be moved because Gradey is on a rookie deal, legit nice and fits better between Barnes and Ingram. Also the best way to maximize the return in a RJ trade is to move him before he becomes extension eligible, after what was maybe his best season ever. They could get some bench scoring and a draft pick.

Celtics are going to make tough decision but it’s time they retool

Philly is going to try to do the impossible and support a team that wants to compete now and also be ready to build around a Maxey future

The Nets have so many options, I could definitely see them coming away with either Giddey or Kuminga…. Or just taking on picks for salary Dump and moving Cam to maybe move up in this year’s draft

Of all these teams I think the raptors see the biggest improvement, and maybe have the best off-season if they move RJ like I said.

WargamesX wrote:I think the Knicks roster and coaching situation isn’t as fixed in place as the playoff record would suggest and there is a legit chance one or two of the starting five get moved.

For the Raptor I think there is an argument RJ could be moved because Gradey is on a rookie deal, legit nice and fits better between Barnes and Ingram. Also the best way to maximize the return in a RJ trade is to move him before he becomes extension eligible, after what was maybe his best season ever. They could get some bench scoring and a draft pick.

Celtics are going to make tough decision but it’s time they retool

Philly is going to try to do the impossible and support a team that wants to compete now and also be ready to build around a Maxey future

The Nets have so many options, I could definitely see them coming away with either Giddey or Kuminga…. Or just taking on picks for salary Dump and moving Cam to maybe move up in this year’s draft

Of all these teams I think the raptors see the biggest improvement, and maybe have the best off-season if they move RJ like I said.

Scoring 21 points with a TS .547% and negative on/off and other bad impact stats is not really going to sought after in the trade market. I don't think any team is thinking we need to trade for RJ now so we can extend off his 30 million in 26/27.

psman2 wrote:

WargamesX wrote:I think the Knicks roster and coaching situation isn’t as fixed in place as the playoff record would suggest and there is a legit chance one or two of the starting five get moved.

For the Raptor I think there is an argument RJ could be moved because Gradey is on a rookie deal, legit nice and fits better between Barnes and Ingram. Also the best way to maximize the return in a RJ trade is to move him before he becomes extension eligible, after what was maybe his best season ever. They could get some bench scoring and a draft pick.

Celtics are going to make tough decision but it’s time they retool

Philly is going to try to do the impossible and support a team that wants to compete now and also be ready to build around a Maxey future

The Nets have so many options, I could definitely see them coming away with either Giddey or Kuminga…. Or just taking on picks for salary Dump and moving Cam to maybe move up in this year’s draft

Of all these teams I think the raptors see the biggest improvement, and maybe have the best off-season if they move RJ like I said.

Scoring 21 points with a TS .547% and negative on/off and other bad impact stats is not really going to sought after in the trade market. I don't think any team is thinking we need to trade for RJ now so we can extend off his 30 million in 26/27.

That’s fair but even with his inefficient numbers I don’t think he is overpaid. A team could fit him on their cap sheet for two seasons as an inefficient player who is still capable of creating their own offense. So I think a late draft pick and legit roleplayer would be a good return and this summer would be Toronto’s best chance to get that for him, because next summer his extension definitely lowers his value.

psman2 wrote:

WargamesX wrote:I think the Knicks roster and coaching situation isn’t as fixed in place as the playoff record would suggest and there is a legit chance one or two of the starting five get moved.

For the Raptor I think there is an argument RJ could be moved because Gradey is on a rookie deal, legit nice and fits better between Barnes and Ingram. Also the best way to maximize the return in a RJ trade is to move him before he becomes extension eligible, after what was maybe his best season ever. They could get some bench scoring and a draft pick.

Celtics are going to make tough decision but it’s time they retool

Philly is going to try to do the impossible and support a team that wants to compete now and also be ready to build around a Maxey future

The Nets have so many options, I could definitely see them coming away with either Giddey or Kuminga…. Or just taking on picks for salary Dump and moving Cam to maybe move up in this year’s draft

Of all these teams I think the raptors see the biggest improvement, and maybe have the best off-season if they move RJ like I said.

Scoring 21 points with a TS .547% and negative on/off and other bad impact stats is not really going to sought after in the trade market. I don't think any team is thinking we need to trade for RJ now so we can extend off his 30 million in 26/27.

His on-off was positive 1.8 and his TS was dragged down by poor FT percentage and being forced into first option for part of the season.

I love that Knicks and Raptors fans can find common ground trying to talk us (and probably themselves if they are honest) into RJ Barrett is a good player.

Texas Chuck wrote:I love that Knicks and Raptors fans can find common ground trying to talk us (and probably themselves if they are honest) into RJ Barrett is a good player.

Yep. I typed up a lengthy reply with a bunch of stats and then just decided it was worth submitting since it would go on deaf ears.

psman2 wrote:

Texas Chuck wrote:I love that Knicks and Raptors fans can find common ground trying to talk us (and probably themselves if they are honest) into RJ Barrett is a good player.

Yep. I typed up a lengthy reply with a bunch of stats and then just decided it was worth submitting since it would go on deaf ears.

I didnt say he was good... Just replying to the comments about TS and on-off. His defense was still poor and he is still overpaid. He did improve vs previous years so hopefully there is still more of that to come.. its off season so one can only hope