Can franchise go over the cap on purpose so they can get best players ?

Unbiased hater · Post #1 » by **Unbiased hater** » Mon Apr 9, 2018 2:28 pm

If some team dont have much caps space but owner decide to get Lebron, George and Kavhi and to keep players from previous year at the same time and he is ready to pay taxes no matter how big they are could he do that ?

Post #2 » by **Smitty731** » Mon Apr 9, 2018 3:10 pm

Unbiased hater wrote:If some team dont have much caps space but owner decide to get Lebron, George and Kavhi and to keep players from previous year at the same time and he is ready to pay taxes no matter how big they are could he do that ?

No. That is why there is a cap. There are mechanisms to go over the cap, as the NBA operates under a soft cap. But generally that is when you are retaining your own players, or trading for a player. It is very hard to go way over the cap when signing free agents, as you are suggesting.

DBoys · Post #3 » by **DBoys** » Mon Apr 9, 2018 5:57 pm

To add to Smitty's point, the cap is a limit on spending. So teams must spend less than the cap. That's the limit. If they want to spend beyond the cap, they must have and use an "exception" to the cap limit to be able to do so. Each and every time. They can never add a contract to their payroll unless they are ending up within the cap limits, or are using an exception that allows them to exceed the cap. Each and every time.

Every team gets a certain number of annual exceptions in varying sizes each NBA year, and also get some in relation to its own players as free agents. Those are specified in great detail in the NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement with its players. Larry Coon's FAQ on that CBA is a helpful place to start, to become educated as to what all of those are, when they are given, and how they operate, as the specifications are complex and can be confusing.