Atlanta Hawks Salary Cap Primer, Pre-Draft Edition

The last update I provided for the Atlanta Hawks’ salary cap standing was post-trade deadline. Things have not changed much since then aside from swapping Lamar Patterson for Jose Calderon and solidifying the No. 19 pick in the NBA draft. Nevertheless, it is a good time to provide a bit of a primer for the off-season now that the season is over. There is a good chance I will have to provide another primer after the NBA draft and I’ll detail why that is the case. The goal here is to give an overview of the cap sheet, discuss a few wrinkles to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that may impact Atlanta in the next few months, and look at the types of moves they can make with respect to their current players and free agents.

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