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NBA Candidate-Team Cap Sheets: Room, Exceptions, Apron Triggers, and Tradeable Salary

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.