Sources

Sources: NBA official 2026-27 cap figures • MLE, BAE and hard-cap trackers. Contracts, cap holds, dead money and unlikely incentives are reconciled team by team to the published cap and apron summaries for each season shown. Over-38 reallocation, TPE inventory and unofficial/pending deals are not modeled. TPEs are trade-only tools and cannot be used to sign free agents. All team and player data current as of September 9, 2026.

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.