Max Cap Room
$12.9 million Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception
$4.7 million Bi-Annual Level Exception

Potential Free Agents​​

• Nic Claxton ($16.6 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Keita Bates-Diop ($2.7 million player option, Non-Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Lonnie Walker IV ($2.1 million cap hold, Non-Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Dennis Smith, Jr. ($2.1 million cap hold, Non-Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Trendon Watford ($2.5 million cap hold, Non-Bird Rights, Restricted)

Summary

Barring major trades, The Nets won't have meaningful cap room even if all of their free agents leave. The most likely scenario is the Nets re-signing some combination of their free agents and remaining over the cap.

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The Nets will likely have about $38 million below the luxury tax with 11 players under contract, which might be enough to re-sign their own key free agents while still having the $12.9 million Non-Taxpayer MLE and the $4.7 million Bi-Annual Exception to add talent.

Potential Free Agency Targets
Shot Creation:​

• DeMar Derozan

• Alec Burks

• Talen Horton-Tucker

 

Guards:

• Tyus Jones

• Russell Westbrook

• De'Anthony Melton

Centers:

• Isaiah Hartenstein

• Xavier Tillman

• JaVale McGee