Summer 2016. It is the closest thing to NBA Armageddon. The salary cap will leap from $67.1 million (recent reports put the new estimate closer to $69 million) to $89 million or even higher. Suddenly nearly every NBA team will have unheard of cap space to be active in free agency. The New Orleans Pelicans have committed over $43 million in salaries for the 2016-17 season alone in the past five days with offers to Anthony Davis, Omer Asik, Alexis Ajinca, and Dante Cunningham. They will still have over $17 million in cap space; even after accounting for contracts of Jrue Holiday, Tyreke Evans, and Quincy Pondexter.
2016 NBA Free Agency: Time for the Pelicans to target a small forward
