Can lakers go over cap. They can take on more salary through trade as long as the incoming salary is within 125 of the outgoing salary or they can sign players using exceptions. Being over the cap which is not the same as the luxury tax means that your team cannot acquire free agents in the conventional way. The lakers are currently over the league salary cap.
A team can take on as much salary as it is capable of taking on as long as they are willing to pay the luxury tax. The nba does not have a hard salary cap. That leaves them 197 million over the salary cap but with.
The team may only sign outside players using any available exceptions or at league minimum salaries. The amount of available salary cap space the lakers have left depends on two things. All depends on the timing and if davis waives his 4m trade bonusif the lakers are acting like a team over the cap waiting 30 days davis will not need to waive his 4m trade bonus.
With that flurry of activity spotracestimates the lakers have 1288 million in total salary commitments for the 2019 20 season. For some time now it was anyones guess whether the lakers would have to divvy up a relatively paltry 23 million in cap space or the near max level of 32 million after their convoluted trade. If hes willing to return on a minimum contract the lakers could agree to terms with him then revoke his.
Caruso will take up 16 million of the teams cap space as a restricted free agent. This means cap holds exceptions are not included in their total cap allocations and renouncing these figures will not afford them any cap space.