Sources

Sources: NBA official 2026-27 cap figures • MLE tracker (7/26), BAE tracker (7/27) and hard-cap tracker (7/26+). Estimates only — Over-38 reallocation, cap holds, TPE inventory and unofficial/pending deals are not modeled. TPEs are trade-only tools and cannot be used to sign free agents.

Contracts and guarantees: reads current and prior Cap Sheet snapshots. Performance: NBA.com. Impact models: DARKO DPM and DataBallr time-decay RAPM. Modeled surplus follows Stephen Noh's NBA Salary Model using its 70-game, 30-MPG defaults, published aging curve and season scalers; it is a model output, not a contract fact.