Max Cap Room
$14.1 million Non-Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception
$5.1 million Bi-Annual Exception

Potential Free Agents

• Tre Mann ($14.7 million cap hold, $7 million Qualifying Offer, Full Bird Rights, Restricted)

• Josh Okogie ($7.8 million non-guaranteed salary)

• DaQuan Jeffries ($2.7 million non-guaranteed salary)​​​

• Seth Curry ($2.3 million cap hold, Early Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Taj Gibson ($2.3 million cap hold, Non-Bird Rights, Unrestricted)

• Moussa Diabate ($2 million non-guaranteed salary)

Summary

Barring any major trades, the Hornets are unlikely to have a meaningful amount of cap space. 

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If Okogie is waived and Diabate is retained, the Hornets will have about $37 million below the luxury tax with 11 players under contract, which should be enough to re-sign their own key free agents while still having the $14.1 million Non-Taxpayer MLE and the $5.1 million Bi-Annual Exception to add talent.

Potential Free Agency Targets
Perimeter Defense:

• De'Anthony Melton

• Nickeil Alexander-Walker

• Gary Payton II

Wing Depth:

• Kenyon Martin, Jr.

• Bruce Brown

• Taurean Prince

Shooting:

• Bones Hyland

• Luke Kennard

• Bojan Bogdanovic