The Houston Rockets will view free agency differently this year than in the past few summers. That’s because they don’t have the same type of cap room they previously had. They can, however, realistically find help vital to getting another banner.
In theory, they could create a bit of spending money by declining all their options. They are obligated to pay $60.7 million, per Spotrac.com. If they traded their first-round pick for future picks and/or assets and waived all their rights to Patrick Beverley, Jason Terry, Josh Smith, K.J. McDaniels and Corey Brewer, they would free up all their cap holds.
Additionally, they could waive Kostas Papanikolaou and Pablo Prigioni (who has a partially guaranteed contract) to open up $5.7 million.
Work out the math there, and it cuts the salaries down to $55 million.
If they did all that, however, they would only have nine players under contract. According to Larry Coon’s CBA FAQ, that would mean adding three cap holds for an “incomplete roster charge” of $525,093 each. That would bring the Rockets’ salaries and holds to $57.1 million.
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