The Nets remade their roster this summer, signed two NBA super stars and engaged in two sign-and-trades. With 15 spots now filled, Nets have a payroll of around $125 million, about $16 million over the cap, but still more than $7 million away from the luxury tax threshold. They are “hard-capped” because of the double S&T that brought Kevin Durant to Brooklyn, but that’s not likely to matter. The hard cap only takes effect if they want to go above $138.9 million in salary. That’s not going to happen.
The Nets, of course, haven’t been significantly over the cap in three years and in fact were under the cap floor in 2016-17, Sean Marks’ first full season in Brooklyn.