Originally Posted by socco

The cap will probably be around $49Mil. As for the $42Mil number, that's not including Bynum, Vujacic, or Cook if they want to excersize the team option them. I would think Bynum's would be for sure. Let's just say they pick up his contract for that season, which puts him at $44Mil or so. If the cap is at $49Mil, they'd be $5Mil under. But really they wouldn't have any more to spend than a team that has $100Mil in salary. Even if they renounced all their free agents, the MLE is a little over $5Mil so they'll just have that. Not sure if that makes any sense, but basically given their current roster they won't have any cap room in the 2007 offseason other than the $5Mil MLE and $2Mil BAE that everybody gets. If you want to read up on the CBA, the link Shabadoo gave is great. If you have some time I'd definately recommend reading it.