An in-depth look at Salary Cap projections with respect to the NBA's new National TV Deal.
There has been a large amount of speculation for the rising Salary Cap due to the upcoming National TV deal. Because of this, I thought it would be beneficial to put my own predictions forward and discuss how I came to them as well as what might potentially be troublesome with the current NBA projections. There may be more information in this article than the typical reader may care to digest, so because of this let me give you the results now and you can feel free to skip the gory details:
| 2015--16 | $66,400,611 | $80,858,154 | $15,528,613 | $18,634,336 | $21,740,059 | $4,945,567,500 | $220,628,556 |
| 2016--17 | $84,722,058 | $102,864,544 | $19,835,860 | $23,803,032 | $27,770,204 | $6,206,095,875 | $234,945,569 |
| 2017--18 | $89,480,273 | $108,588,351 | $20,953,848 | $25,144,618 | $29,335,387 | $6,536,400,669 | $239,977,463 |
| 2018--19 | $94,387,580 | $114,491,258 | $22,106,885 | $26,528,262 | $30,949,638 | $6,876,970,702 | $245,129,297 |
| 2019--20 | $99,451,455 | $120,582,242 | $23,296,728 | $27,956,073 | $32,615,419 | $7,228,319,237 | $250,406,379 |
| 2020--21 | $104,679,750 | $126,870,730 | $24,525,224 | $29,430,269 | $34,335,314 | $7,590,985,199 | $255,814,270 |
| 2021--22 | $110,080,710 | $133,366,623 | $25,794,312 | $30,953,174 | $36,112,036 | $7,965,534,459 | $261,358,807 |
| 2022--23 | $115,662,992 | $140,080,313 | $27,106,026 | $32,527,232 | $37,948,437 | $8,352,561,182 | $267,046,109 |
| 2023--24 | $121,435,686 | $147,022,714 | $28,462,505 | $34,155,007 | $39,847,508 | $8,752,689,241 | $272,882,594 |
| 2024--25 | $127,408,336 | $154,205,286 | $29,865,993 | $35,839,192 | $41,812,390 | $9,166,573,703 | $278,874,996 |
(Maximum Salaries are based off of 42.