THE WORLD'S MOST COMPLETE NBA BREAKING AND RECENT NEWS SOURCE
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This site provides visitors with the world's most complete and most updated list of breaking and recent NBA news stories. Here you will find every NBA "rumor, breaking news, and recent news story that exists right now.
The terms "breaking news" and "recent news" are self explanatory, but what is a rumor? It is about the same thing as "breaking news". A rumor is a breaking basketball news story that has not been officially confirmed by the League or by the team or teams involved. Some rumors are really news, because they are completely true, or at least about to be true, whereas other rumors are partly true, and still other rumors are false, or at least they never become true. The point is, the word rumor is the wrong word for many of the stories you will find here, which are breaking news stories that have not yet been officially confirmed.
Don't miss the salaries and payroll totals at the bottom.
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NBA Player Salaries, Team Payroll Totals, and Team Cap Space Available now and in Future Years
SALARIES AND CAP SPACE MONITOR USER GUIDE NOTES
--Parenthesis indicate a player associated with the team but who is NOT going to be playing in 2009-10. Such players' pay (if any) is NOT counted in the "Real-Actual Players Only 2009-10" column (the first numerical column)
--The "TOTALS" line is obviously very important for each team. The total of "Real-Actual Players Only 2009-10" is the actual pay that is going to be paid to the actual players. So this tells you how much money is actually going to be applied to the actual players.
--Players who are injured and may not play some or all of the season are included in the real actual pay column if and only if they have not been waived or put on the inactive reserve status. It is not possible to accurately predict how much a player currently injured will play, so their pay is included in full. If you know that a certain player is not playing due to injury, you can subtract that player's pay to determine the actual, effective real team payroll.
--Another important Total is the second numerical column: Official Salary Cap Accounting. Compare a team's total in this column to 57.7 million dollars and to 69.8 million dollars, which are the NBA salary cap and the NBA luxury tax threshold, respectively. If a team's accounting total is over the 69.8 million dollars luxury tax threshold, it owes the League a tax equal to the amount of the overage.
--A third very important total is the fourth column, called Contracted 2010-11. This indirectly tells you how much financial freedom each team is currently scheduled to have next off season, in 2010.
The 2010 "free agent market" is scheduled to have a bunch of the best players in the NBA in it. So any team that has a lot of "cap space" for the 2010-11 season will be in a strong position to go after these top players. The lower the total you see in the 2010-11 column, the more salary cap space a team will have in 2010. The 2010-11 salary cap will most likely be between 55 and 60 million dollars, so knowing that you can make an estimate of the actual amount of cap space each team will have in 2010. The current Quest for the Ring projection of what the 2010-11 salary cap will be is $56 million dollars, substantially less than other predictions.
--In order to view everything on the worksheet, you must use BOTH the vertical scroll and the horizontal scroll.
--The source of this information, which is current as of August 9, is an Internet site which is strongly believed to be reliable.
