{"id":675612,"date":"2026-03-24T03:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675612\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:02:20","slug":"nba-shares-new-2026-27-salary-cap-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675612\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Shares New 2026-27 Salary Cap Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The NBA has shared an updated salary cap projection for the 2026-27 season with its member franchises. The new number comes in at $165 million, a million lower than originally forecasted for the season. Shams Charania of ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2036216759645036724?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared the news via X today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per Charania, the decline is due to a reduction in local revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers have an approximately $172 million dedicated to their active players and dead-cap contracts for the 2026-27 season currently. That number does not include cap holds for veterans Matisse Thybulle and Robert Williams III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA has shared an updated salary cap projection for the 2026-27 season with its member franchises. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,3101,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-675612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-news","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116281930148441497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}