With many NBA teams currently hoping for success in the present day, the days of playoff teams avoiding the luxury tax look well behind us with 19 of 30 teams exceeding the 2016-17 salary cap.
The Utah Jazz however, paid their roster the least amount of any team. Sadly, this doesn’t mean the Jazz can recruit All-Stars willy-nilly because three important pieces of the Jazz puzzle are all headed for free agency.
How the Jazz can stay beneath the salary cap limit…
It would require some brilliance and maybe even some luck for Jazz brass to maintain a contending roster or build into something more by staying under the projected salary cap of $101 million.