The NBA Bubble moves into postseason mode, with 16 teams earning a birth in the unique 2019-20 playoffs. We'll take a look at how those teams spent this season, their luxury tax situation, what kind of cap space (practically speaking) each is facing in 2021, & a few other tid bits as well.


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2019-20 Playoff Financials
Practical Cap Space is based on a projected $115M salary cap for the 2020-2021 season. It denotes cap space with all cap holds renounced if team salary was below the cap maximum. It also assumes veteran club options declined and non-guaranteed players released.
  Avg. Age 2019-20 Total Cap 2019-20
Luxury Space		 2020-21 Practical
Cap Space		 2019-20
PPG		 Defensive
Efficiency		 Starting-5
CAP $
BOS 24.4 $119,147,447 $14,189,915* $-20,187,750 9th 4th $53,725,349
BKN 26.3 $126,272,841 $6,645,608* $-21,544,089 16th 11th $18,090,693
DAL 27.2 $123,456,891 $9,150,350* $5,863,398 3rd 18th $66,454,867
DEN 24.9 $129,399,169 $3,197,576 $4,110,463 19th 16th $67,688,776
HOU 29.2 $128,507,041 $3,667,020 $-15,598,961 2nd 13th $62,084,784
IND 24.9 $114,591,944 $18,035,056* $-10,328,451 23rd 6th $74,077,000
LAC 27.5 $132,150,052 $476,948 $-963,869 4th 5th $99,574,718
LAL 28.9 $122,723,507 $9,903,493 $-4,405,520 11th 3rd $91,253,305
MIA 26.9 $133,897,605 $-1,988,772* $30,085,627 15th 10th $64,646,365
MIL 28.9 $130,229,664 $2,222,469 $-8,689,825 1st 1st $86,728,922
OKC 24.7 $133,412,334 $-956,713 $10,194,141 21st 7th $91,073,305
ORL 25.5 $130,584,386 $5,134,057* $-2,177,056 24th 9th $57,183,476
PHI 25.8 $130,102,816 $2,713,871 $-32,018,834 20th 8th $99,808,903
POR 25.2 $137,667,430 $-3,965,297 $10,023,467 6th 27th $75,758,509
TOR 25.7 $125,154,361 $5,963,465* $26,474,285 13th 2nd $74,571,788
UTH 25.7 $127,212,555 $4,347,383 $-1,822,891 18th 14th $43,837,817

 

Notable Unrestricted Free Agents
Player (3) TEAM Pos. Age Exp Type Rights MPG PPG RPG APG SPG BPG 2019-2020 AAV
Joe Harris BKN SG 29 6 UFA Bird 30.8 14.5 4.3 2.1 0.6 0.2 $8,000,000
Paul Millsap DEN PF 35 14 UFA Bird 24.3 11.6 5.7 1.6 0.9 0.6 $30,000,000
Mason Plumlee DEN C 30 7 UFA Bird 17.3 7.2 5.2 2.5 0.5 0.6 $13,666,667
Jeff Green HOU SF 34 13 UFA Non-Bird 20.0 9.4 2.8 1.0 0.6 0.4 $695,526
DeMarre Carroll HOU SF 34 11 UFA Non-Bird 12.0 3.6 2.3 1.0 0.3 0.2 $811,447
Justin Holiday IND SG 31 7 UFA Non-Bird 25.0 8.3 3.3 1.3 1.2 0.6 $4,767,000
Montrezl Harrell LAC PF 26 5 UFA Bird 27.8 18.6 7.1 1.7 0.6 1.1 $6,000,000
Marcus Morris LAC PF 31 9 UFA Non-Bird 31.2 16.7 5.0 1.4 0.8 0.5 $15,000,000
Reggie Jackson LAC PG 30 9 UFA Non-Bird 23.9 11.9 3.0 4.1 0.4 0.2 $734,025
Dwight Howard LAL C 34 16 UFA Non-Bird 18.9 7.5 7.3 0.7 0.4 1.1 $2,564,753
Dion Waiters LAL SG 28 8 UFA Non-Bird 20.7 11.1 2.4 2.0 0.4 0.6 $503,656
Markieff Morris LAL PF 31 9 UFA Non-Bird 20.5 9.7 3.8 1.3 0.5 0.3 $1,750,000
Goran Dragic MIA PG 34 12 UFA Bird 28.2 16.2 3.2 5.1 0.7 0.2 $17,000,450
Jae Crowder MIA SF 30 8 UFA Bird 28.8 10.5 5.9 2.5 1.1 0.4 $7,000,000
Danilo Gallinari OKC SF 32 12 UFA Bird 29.6 18.7 5.2 1.9 0.7 0.1 $21,587,579
D.J. Augustin ORL PG 32 12 UFA Bird 24.9 10.5 2.1 4.6 0.6 0.0 $7,250,000
Alec Burks PHI SG 29 9 UFA Non-Bird 26.6 15.0 4.3 2.9 0.9 0.3 $2,320,044
Glenn Robinson III PHI SG 26 6 UFA Non-Bird 28.8 11.7 4.4 1.5 0.9 0.3 $1,882,867
Hassan Whiteside POR C 31 8 UFA Bird 30.0 15.5 13.5 1.2 0.4 2.9 $24,604,885
Carmelo Anthony POR SF 36 16 UFA Non-Bird 32.8 15.4 6.3 1.5 0.8 0.5 $2,159,029
Fred VanVleet TOR PG 26 4 UFA Bird 35.7 17.6 3.8 6.6 1.9 0.3 $9,000,000
Serge Ibaka TOR PF 31 11 UFA Bird 27.0 15.4 8.2 1.4 0.5 0.8 $21,666,667
Marc Gasol TOR C 35 12 UFA Bird 26.4 7.5 6.3 3.3 0.8 0.9 $22,642,350
Jordan Clarkson UTH PG 28 6 UFA Bird 24.0 15.2 2.6 1.9 0.6 0.2 $12,500,000

 

Notable Options
Player Team Pos. Age Exp Type GP MPG PPG RPG APG SPG BPG 2019-20 AAV
Gordon Hayward BOS SF 30 9 PLAYER 52 33.5 17.5 6.7 4.1 0.7 0.4 $31,957,493
Enes Kanter BOS C 28 8 PLAYER 58 16.9 8.1 7.4 1.0 0.4 0.7 $4,886,175
Garrett Temple BKN SG 34 9 CLUB 62 27.9 10.3 3.5 2.5 0.8 0.5 $4,767,000
Tim Hardaway Jr. DAL SG 28 6 PLAYER 71 29.5 15.8 3.3 1.9 0.6 0.1 $17,737,500
Jerami Grant DEN SF 26 5 PLAYER 71 26.6 12.0 3.5 1.2 0.7 0.8 $9,115,384
Austin Rivers LAC SG 28 7 PLAYER 68 23.4 8.8 2.6 1.7 0.7 0.1 $2,271,991
Anthony Davis LAL PF 27 7 PLAYER 62 34.4 26.1 9.3 3.2 1.5 2.3 $25,434,263
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope LAL SG 27 6 PLAYER 69 25.5 9.3 2.1 1.6 0.8 0.2 $8,291,514
Avery Bradley LAL SG 29 9 PLAYER 49 24.2 8.6 2.3 1.3 0.9 0.1 $4,886,175
JaVale McGee LAL C 32 11 PLAYER 68 16.6 6.6 5.7 0.5 0.5 1.4 $4,100,000
Rajon Rondo LAL PG 34 13 PLAYER 48 20.5 7.1 3.0 5.0 0.8 0.0 $2,592,179
Kelly Olynyk MIA C 29 6 PLAYER 67 19.4 8.2 4.6 1.7 0.7 0.3 $12,500,000
Robin Lopez MIL C 32 11 PLAYER 66 14.5 5.4 2.4 0.7 0.2 0.7 $4,886,175
Wesley Matthews MIL SG 33 10 PLAYER 67 24.4 7.4 2.5 1.4 0.6 0.1 $2,628,872
Evan Fournier ORL SG 27 7 PLAYER 66 31.4 18.5 2.6 3.2 1.1 0.2 $17,000,000
Rodney Hood POR SG 27 5 PLAYER 21 29.4 11.0 3.4 1.5 0.8 0.2 $5,860,950