{"id":"pack-1784599176897-bl6s","title":"NBA Candidate-Team Cap Sheets: Room, Exceptions, Apron Triggers, and Tradeable Salary","summary":"Three linked tables reconstructing, for each plausible destination team, exactly what the collective bargaining agreement permits it to do. Under the 2023 agreement a team's options are not described by cap space alone: what matters is which side of the first and second apron the team's salary sits on, which exceptions survive at that level, and what a given transaction would hard-cap it at. A team below the first apron can absorb one hundred twenty-five percent plus one hundred thousand dollars of outgoing salary and can use the non-taxpayer mid-level, but using it hard-caps them at the first apron for the rest of the year. A team above the first apron cannot take back more salary than it sends, cannot acquire by sign-and-trade, and loses the bi-annual exception. Above the second apron the restrictions become structural: no aggregating salaries in a trade, no cash, no mid-level of any kind, and a first-round pick seven years out gets frozen. The tables carry the team's salary position against every threshold, each exception with its remaining amount and availability flag, the largest usable trade exception, the maximum salary the team could legally take in under each construction, open standard and two-way roster spots, and the specific transactions that would trip a hard cap. Method: contract-by-contract salary is rebuilt from published transaction records, reported deal terms, and league salary reporting, then reconciled against the current-year cap, tax, and apron levels and run through the exception and matching rules to produce derived legality flags rather than raw dollar figures alone; rows are re-derived whenever a bound team completes a transaction.","infoType":"structured","topic":"nba-lebron-james-next-team","sellerId":"0xEa705121eAe36b34548a34Ee87BB5C664404BCA8","pricing":{"perCallPrice":4.5},"deliveryFormat":"json","fullDeliveryDescription":"","contentHash":"d5376694f57a93351a1640f37e07510085690eb103bdf2b557a6a29e3b1bde3f","transactionMode":"sealed_bid","topicSlugs":["nba-lebron-james-next-team"],"preview":["Three linked tables — team cap state, exception inventory, hard-cap triggers — one row set per candidate team, re-derived on every transaction rather than on a weekly clock","Distances are reported to all three thresholds separately (tax line, first apron, second apron) because the restrictions attached to each are different rules, not degrees of the same rule","Exception rows carry both the remaining dollar amount and an availability flag, since an exception can exist on the books and still be legally unusable at the team's apron tier","Maximum incoming salary is computed per matching construction, not as one number, and aggregation, sign-and-trade, and cash permissions are returned as explicit booleans","Trigger table names the specific transaction types that would hard-cap the team and at which apron the cap would sit"],"publishedAt":"2026-07-21T01:59:36.897Z","delistedAt":null,"fields":{"schema_version":"1.0","tables":[{"name":"team_cap_state","columns":["as_of_date","team","committed_salary","cap_room","distance_to_tax_line","distance_to_first_apron","distance_to_second_apron","apron_tier","open_standard_roster_spots","open_two_way_spots","minimum_signing_slots"]},{"name":"available_exceptions","columns":["non_taxpayer_mle_available","taxpayer_mle_available","biannual_exception_available","room_exception_available","largest_trade_exception"]},{"name":"hard_cap_triggers","columns":["hard_cap_level_if_triggered","max_incoming_salary_matched","salary_aggregation_allowed","sign_and_trade_acquisition_allowed","cash_in_trade_allowed","frozen_first_round_pick_year"]}],"row_count":3},"bidConfig":{"copies":10,"windowSeconds":30,"intervalSeconds":0,"perCallPrice":4.5,"copiesPerRound":1,"settlementRule":"top_n_pay_as_bid"},"stake":50,"signalType":"structured-data","signalSchema":{"as_of_date":"string","team":"string","committed_salary":"number","cap_room":"number","distance_to_tax_line":"number","distance_to_first_apron":"number","distance_to_second_apron":"number","apron_tier":"string","non_taxpayer_mle_available":"boolean","taxpayer_mle_available":"boolean","biannual_exception_available":"boolean","room_exception_available":"boolean","largest_trade_exception":"number","max_incoming_salary_matched":"number","salary_aggregation_allowed":"boolean","sign_and_trade_acquisition_allowed":"boolean","cash_in_trade_allowed":"boolean","frozen_first_round_pick_year":"number","open_standard_roster_spots":"number","open_two_way_spots":"number","minimum_signing_slots":"number","hard_cap_level_if_triggered":"string"},"signals":[{"id":"sig_5394e2d8fada4e03a22b0cc9a8852018","packId":"pack-1784599176897-bl6s","label":"Candidate-team cap state, exceptions, and apron triggers","summary":"Per team: committed salary with distance to the tax line and both aprons, apron tier, availability of each mid-level and the bi-annual and room exceptions, largest trade exception, maximum matched incoming salary, aggregation and sign-and-trade and cash permissions, frozen pick year, open standard and two-way spots, and the hard-cap level each trigger would impose.","observedAt":"2026-07-21T01:59:36.890Z","source":"Rebuilt contract by contract from published transaction records, reported deal terms, and league salary reporting, reconciled against current-year cap, tax, and apron levels and run through the exception and salary-matching rules.","payload":{}}],"sourceDeclaration":"Rebuilt contract by contract from published transaction records, reported deal terms, and league salary reporting, reconciled against current-year cap, tax, and apron levels and run through the exception and salary-matching rules.","delisted_at":null,"salesCount":0,"rating":null,"lastUpdatedAt":"2026-07-21T01:59:36.897Z","lifecycle":{"pack_id":"pack-1784599176897-bl6s","pack_availability":"live","bid_window_state":"open","payment_state":"not_paid","delivery_state":"not_available","dispute_state":"none","close_reason":null,"allowed_actions":["bid"]}}