The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association reached a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement Saturday morning, which will go into effect in the 2023-24 season. While the full text has yet to come out, key details are already starting to emerge.
Whether the new CBA is a net positive or a net negative for the Sixers depends almost entirely on whether they re-sign James Harden this summer.
Among the most notable changes is the implementation of a second salary-cap apron set $17.5 million above the luxury tax, per multiple reports. Teams that exceed that line will not be allowed to spend the taxpayer mid-level exception, send cash in trades, trade first-round picks that are seven years away, sign players on the buyout market, and take more money back than they send out in trades, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.