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 The league has issued new projections for the salary cap over the next few years. They now project the cap to rise to 102 million in 2017, 108 million in 2018, 109 million in 2019, and 114 million in 2020. There is some good and bad in these numbers. For teams trying to carve space for max contracts next year, this is bad news since the old projections were a cap of 107 million. For teams using cap space to acquire assets by taking on bad contracts, this is obviously good news. The other good thing is the cap was originally expected to drop to 101 million in 2018, and only slowly move back to the 2017 level. That woul potentially have made contracts signed in 2017 become worse over time since they would take up a larger percentage of the cap over time. Now that is not an issue. I know these projections will change (a year ago the cap for this year was projected at 89 million), but I still think this is interesting news.

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