The NBA is caught up in the decline of cable television regional sports networks and it’s hitting the league’s bottom line.<\/p>\n
The NBA sent a memo to teams this week stating that next year’s salary cap would be $165 million, which is $1 million lower than previously projected, reports Shams Charania of ESPN<\/a>. Last September, the league told teams to expect a $166 million cap, but that number is now slightly lower due to a reduction in local media revenue.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n That $165 million salary cap also means: Due to Main Street Sports’ financial struggles \u2014 which runs the FanDuel Sports Network, the local broadcast partner of 13 NBA teams \u2014 the NBA is considering introducing a streaming hub for local broadcasts as soon as next season, the Sports Business Journal<\/a> reported recently.<\/p>\n The salary cap for the current season (2025-26) is $154.7 million. While the salary cap is still increasing next season, it’s not going up the full 10% allowed under the CBA, despite it being the second year of the league’s new national television deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA is caught up in the decline of cable television regional sports networks and it’s hitting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,127751,590,278637,7889,18419,85,16881],"class_list":{"0":"post-566451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cable-television","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-nba-teams","13":"tag-salary-cap","14":"tag-shams-charania","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-the-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 The salary floor: $149 million
\u2022 The luxury tax line: $201 million
\u2022 The first tax apron: $209 million
\u2022 The second tax apron: $222 million
\u2022 The non-taxpayer midlevel exception: $15.1 million
\u2022 The taxpayer midlevel exception: $6.1 million<\/p>\n