This time of year, money matters quite a bit in the NBA.
Franchises are looking ahead to the hottest months on the calendar, when they'll try to add young prospects to their rosters in the draft and then outthink each other on the free-agent market. Each contract is important as they try to position themselves for more success than they experienced in 2014-15.
In order to break down each team's financial health, I'll be looking at the remaining contracts that are on the books for the 2015-16 season, the expiring deals, any and all player and team options, the non-guaranteed deals, dead money and everything else that could possibly come up.
No two franchises are in identical situations, after all. That's true even if both squads have exactly the same amount of cap space.
Take two teams (Team A and Team B) with $20 million of cap space at their disposal heading into the 2015 offseason. Both are well off, right?
Well, what if Team A has three All-Stars on the roster and Team B doesn't have one within sniffing distance of the midseason classic? All of a sudden, Team A has much better financial health, ...
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