Hawks State of the Cap: 1996

We go back in time to look at the Atlanta Hawks salary cap situation from 1996.

Hello, America Online. Here we are in the Summer of 1996 playing this new game called Pokémon and jamming out to the Macarena, what a time to be alive. Let’s take a few minutes to look at the Atlanta Hawks capsheet going into the 1996 off-season and trying to figure out what may or may not have happened. This is a bit difficult to decipher, but I’ll try my best to guide you through what could have happened during this wild time in in the NBA.

Atlanta’s Cap Situation

OK there’s a few ground rules to cover before I go into the Hawks’ cap situation. For one, the Salary Cap was set at $24.363M for that year and any…