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The salary cap for the 2022–23 season is $123.655 million (minimum team salary, which is set at 90 percent of the Salary Cap, is $111.290 million). [6] The league's newest CBA, which took effect with the 2023–24 season, requires teams to meet the 90% salary floor at the start of preseason training camp.
From 2022 onwards, at least one team surpassed the tax threshold each year. 2023 saw a then-record-breaking eight teams exceed the luxury tax threshold, [15] which was then surpassed the following year when nine teams exceeded the luxury tax. [16] Below is a breakdown of how much each team paid during the 2022 through 2024 seasons. [17]
In theory, there are two main benefits derived from salary caps – promotion of parity between teams, and control of costs. [5] [6] [7]Primarily, an effective salary cap prevents wealthy teams from certain destructive behaviours such as signing a multitude of high-paid star players to prevent their rivals from accessing these players, and ensuring victory through superior economic power.
By comparison the underlying index for a cap is frequently a LIBOR rate, or a national interest rate. [1] The extent of the cap is known as its notional profile and can change over the lifetime of a cap, for example, to reflect amounts borrowed under an amortizing loan. [1] The purchase price of a cap is a one-off cost and is known as the ...