The Brooklyn Nets, now in a rebuild, are looking to shed their veteran contracts, which account for the majority of their salary cap. This is the first offseason where the new collective bargaining agreement has come into play, which introduces the highly talked about first and second aprons.The rules in the new CBA make the salary cap situation a bit tricky for teams looking to pay a lot to add talent.
First apron penalties include: being unable to acquire a player via sign-and-trade if they then go above the first apron, salaries in trades must match within 110% , and being unable to sign a waived player from the regular if their salary was over the $12.2 million midlevel exception. The new CBA keeps teams from overpaying for star talent, and makes the salary cap even more of a concern when free agency hits. For the Nets, the Bridges trade, they dumped hissalary and will likely take on another, so it's not like the Bridges-Knicks trade frees up space to sign better players unless Brooklyn continues to unload veterans.
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