Good teams with high draft picks - cap space?

MKG35 · Post #1 » by **MKG35** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:36 am

I was checking out the Cavs cap space and saw that the 1st pick counts for 4.x million. I knew this but anyways...

So it made me wonder, what kind of influence does this pick have on your cap space. What if you have the pick and you go over it? Can you just do that because you have the pick or do you need to get rid of players to free up space? Since it wouldn't be smart to give up a good (depends of course) player with a relatively cheap contract.

Does anyone know how the Pistons pulled this off when they drafted Milicic? The cap was set at 43.84 million and they had 53.4 million in contracts during that season (including his contract).

So it just gets added to it? No problems by doing this?

I assume it's no problem but I was just wondering if a team like the Lakers who had 90 million in salary had to add a #1 pick for another 4 million. With the current CBA that would be a killer.

http://www.nba.com/news/cap_030715.html

http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/DET/2004.html

Dunkenstein · Post #2 » by **Dunkenstein** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 5:28 am

The basic rule of the NBA's salary cap is that a team can't sign a player or make a trade that leaves the team's team salary above the cap, unless the team is using an exception.

Larry Coon covers salary cap exceptions in question #25 of His FAQ:

http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q25