Max Cap Room
$14.1 million Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception

$5.1 million Bi-Annual Exception

Potential Free Agents

• Clint Capela ($33.4 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Caris LeVert ($24.9 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Larry Nance Jr. ($21.3 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Garrison Mathews ($2.3 million cap hold, Full Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Vit Krejci ($2.3 million non-guaranteed salary)

• Mouhamed Gueye ($2.2 million non-guaranteed salary)

• Dominic Barlow ($2.3 million team option, Full Bird Rights, Restricted)

Summary

The Hawks will not have any real sort of cap space even if they lose all of their key free agents, which is unlikely. Therefore, they will operate over the cap. 

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If Krejci and Gueye are retained, the Hawks will have about $39 million below the luxury tax with 11 players under contract, which might be enough to re-sign their own key free agents while still possibly having the $14.1 million Non-Taxpayer MLE and the $5.1 million Bi-Annual Exception to add talent, depending on what happens with their own free agents.

Potential Free Agency Targets

Perimeter defense:

• Gary Payton II

• Nickeil Alexander-Walker

• Jevon Carter

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Shooting:

• Kelly Oubre

• Quentin Grimes

• Gary Harris

 

Wing Depth:

• Bruce Brown

• De'Anthony Melton

• Dante Exum