The Brooklyn Nets are currently second in the NBA in a dubious category — dead salary cap space.
Figures compiled by Luke Adams of Hoops Rumors based on the tabulations by Jeff Siegel at Early Bird Rights have the Nets with nearly $24.3 million in dead money thus far in the 2018-19 league year.
Dead money is what a team is left with when it opts to waive a player with a guaranteed contract.
Brooklyn’s dead money thus far has come from just two sources — the nearly $5.5 million cap hit for using the stretch provision in 2015 to buy out Deron Williams and almost $19 million from the buyout of Dwight Howard early last month.