The article highlights the impending NBA free agency period with key figures like LeBron James, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving eligible to explore new deals. The landscape is shaped by recent trades, salary cap dynamics, and a limited number of teams with available cap space—specifically the Brooklyn Nets, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons, and Memphis Grizzlies. As the regular season nears its end, speculation intensifies about potential player movements, new salary cap restrictions, and how certain teams might pivot toward building their rosters this summer.
Whether a team is an NBA Finals contender or bound to be a lottery team for June's draft, the topic of free agency now looms with less than two months left in the regular season.
Some big names could shake up the summer. LeBron James, James Harden and Kyrie Irving are among the stars eligible to enter free agency -- but are new deals with their current teams more realistic?
As for teams with money to spend? The Brooklyn Nets, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Pistons and Memphis Grizzlies are the only teams currently under the salary cap.
What new salary cap restrictions will hit teams the hardest? Yes, it's only February. But we're already looking at the storylines that will dominate June, July and August.
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