Max Cap Room
$14.1 million Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception

$5.1 million Bi-Annual Exception

Potential Free Agents

• Clint Capela ($33.4 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Larry Nance Jr. ($21.3 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• David Roddy ($4.8 million cap hold, Limited Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Garrison Mathews ($2.3 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Cody Zeller ($3.7 million non-guaranteed salary)

• Vit Krejci ($2.3 million non-guaranteed salary)

• Mouhamed Gueye ($2.2 million non-guaranteed salary)

Summary

The Hawks will not have cap space even if they lose all of their key free agents, which is unlikely. Therefore, they will operate over the cap. 

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If Krejci is retained, the Hawks will have about $39 million below the luxury tax with 8 players under contract (not including their first round pick from the Lakers), which might be enough to re-sign their own key free agents while still possibly having the $14.1 million Non-Taxpayer MLE and the $5.1 million Bi-Annual Exception to add talent, depending on what happens with their own free agents.

Potential Free Agency Targets

Perimeter defense:

• Gary Payton II

• Nickeil Alexander-Walker

• Jevon Carter

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Shooting:

• Kelly Oubre

• Quentin Grimes

• Gary Harris

 

Wing Depth:

• Bruce Brown

• De'Anthony Melton

• Dante Exum