About a month ago we looked at the Raptors’ salary situation for this coming summer. It was right after the new CBA was signed, so we had only rumours to go on. With the full text of the CBA now available, a few of those worst case assumptions can be set aside for more realistic projections. Let’s take a look.
The main assumption that we made that looks a little better is rookie scale salaries for players already under contract. The players’ salaries will indeed be increasing as expected, but the increased salary will not count towards the cap.