Its hard to navigate on my phone and asking for permissions for my camera, and other stuff...? Cool idea though.
I knew that they were near the top, but I didn't realize that the Blazers actually have the highest salary in the league at $139,919 million. https://earlybirdrights.com/salary-cap/ Here's the direct link to the Blazers' cap sheet: https://earlybirdrights.com/salary-cap/por/
not surprising Portland has the highest team salary and highest level of guaranteed salary it is surprising, at least it is to me, that 16 of the 30 teams are hard-capped this season. I wonder if that number is a lot higher than normal?
This may seem a little weird but I think a lot of teams are getting hard capped on purpose now. That way they don't have to answer questions as to why they're not willing to go into the luxury tax to improve the roster during the season. As the cap gets higher and higher it's a way for owners to keep payroll down without it looking like they aren't committed. The real reason though is because when there is so much player movement it leads to teams not being in a situation similar to the Blazers the last few years where they used bird rights to go way over the cap. When you sign free agents and let yours go then you are usually using exceptions like the room, mid-level, bae, etc. Those avenues get you hard capped.
yeah, that makes some sense: "hey look, my hands are tied....don't blame me!" (please ignore who supplied the rope) there are also a few team that have sold the farm in order to have two (or three) max salaries; piling up giant salary for just a few players. They are practically forced to use those exceptions just to field a viable roster
