";s:4:"text";s:3696:" The bonus is not counted against the salary cap, but is counted in overall league salaries. However, this is only the case if the players with between 7-9 years of experience are designated veterans, i.e., those that are signing with the team they played for while they were still on their rookie-scale deal. For a player with 7–9 years of experience, the maximum is $30,600,000 or 30% of the cap, and for a player with 10+ years of experience, the maximum is $35,700,000 or 35% of the cap.The 2017 CBA made a subtle change to the determination of maximum salaries. For any other player to be a restricted free agent, he must be at most a three-year NBA veteran, and his team must have made a Qualifying Offer for either 125% of his previous season's salary or the minimum salary plus $200,000, whichever offer is higher.The 2017 CBA changed the accounting rules for the player's original team in this scenario. $111,720,511. Sign-and-trades are a reality in the NBA because of the CBA's rules: unlike baseball, where teams losing free agents are compensated with draft picks or cash, NBA teams that lose free agents receive no compensation. Ordinarily a team cannot engage in a trade which would leave it 100,000 dollars above the salary cap, regardless of whether the trade reduces or increase its overall payroll, and requires exceptions in order to do so, the traded player exception is one of such. In practice, they rarely receive more than the minimum.Prior to the 2017 CBA, the rookie scales for each season were negotiated into the agreement. Teams above the apron before the trade cannot receive a player unless the trade leaves the team below the apron.The tight salary-matching rules of the 2005 CBA often required what NBA cap analyst Certain players in the first few months of a new contract are subject to base year compensation (BYC). Teams that go above the luxury tax cap are subject to the luxury tax (a tax on every dollar spent over the luxury tax cap). In 2003, Players on a team's season-ending roster remain under contract with their respective team until the start of the new league year on July 1.During the moratorium, teams are restricted from commenting on deals.The end of a free agent's contract does not remove him from a team's cap calculations. The remaining guaranteed salary was equally spread across the remaining years of the player's contract.The 2011 CBA dramatically changed this regime.