The Bucks will receive a salary cap benefit as a result of Damian Lillard's new three-year contract with the Trail

There are growing calls for Major League Baseball to have a salary cap. Major League Baseball is the only of the four major U.S. sports leagues to not have a salary cap. The NFL, NBA and NHL all enforce a salary cap - and a salary floor.

Phoenix Suns star guard Devin Booker signed a two-year, $145-million extension to mark the highest annual extension salary in NBA history.

The 2026–27 salary cap is projected at $165 million. The post NBA Salary Cap Up 7% in 2026–27, but Teams Expected More appeared first on Front Office Sports.

The NBA shouldn't harshly penalize teams like the Oklahoma City Thunder for correctly identifying good basketball players and building great rosters.

The Phoenix Suns on Wednesday waived and stretched the two years and $110 million remaining on three-time All-Star guard Bradley Beal's contract, punctuating the end of a failed "Big Three" experiment. The question, then: Is this also the end of the era in which teams try to collect three max-salaried stars?

Alexander, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren brought the Oklahoma City Thunder a title this season, and now the team has secured its three stars for the long haul.

The other top 3-and-D role player on the market, Alexander-Walker, secured even more guaranteed money from the Hawks, who will add the 26-year-old to a wing rotation that includes rising star Jalen Johnson, Most Improved Player Dyson Daniels and 2024 No. 1 overall pick Zaccharie Risacher.

Well, according to the league's projected salary cap increase for the 2026-2027 season (so, starting next summer), the second apron is likely about to wreak even more havoc on NBA squads who are already tight up against the cap. It's just an unfortunate reality.

College sports has another before and after date. Before July 1, 2025 — this past Tuesday — athletes could make money off their names, images and likenesses (NIL) but not be paid directly by their schools. And after July 1, that changed, making college sports look and feel even more like the pros.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver put the topic of expansion on the back burner until the league settled its collective bargaining agreement (completed in 2023) and reached a new national broadcast deal (finalized in 2024).