As of the 2023 Collective Bargaining Agreement, the NBA added a third two-way roster spot. The goal is to give teams the means to develop players with fewer than four years of experience—part-time in the G League and NBA. Two-way contracts pay half the value of a rookie minimum salary ($559,782 for the 2023-24 [Read More]
On June 26 and 27, the NBA will hold its annual draft (held over two days), pulling from an incredible domestic and global talent pool. How do they rank as potential prospects? Seven Sports Business Classroom alumni (Elias Eldridge, Diego Torres, Gabriel Mendez, Max Rosenberg, Braden Beach, Anirudh Kantareddy and Daniel Sherman) have mocked [Read More]
On June 26 and 27, the NBA will hold its annual draft (held over two days), pulling from an incredible domestic and global talent pool. As prospects continue to play, how do they rank as potential draft prospects? Eight Sports Business Classroom alumni (Elias Eldridge, Diego Torres, Gabriel Mendez, Max Rosenberg, Jordan Silbert, Braden [Read More]
In late January, the NBA lowered its salary cap projection for the 2024-25 season from $142 million to $141 million. Although the projection has dipped, it still represents a 3.66 percent increase from the 2023-24 campaign's $136 million salary cap. That climb in salary cap would have the following impact on the 2024-25 season: [Read More]
One of the goals of the NBA's latest Collective Bargaining Agreement is to curb spending. The higher a team's payroll, the fewer tools they have. The NBA has a soft cap, which allows teams to spend without limit, provided they have the tools (more formally, "exceptions") to do so. But certain exceptions will trigger [Read More]
