The Nets have no operations at the moment, and even Thomas Jr. has not renewed his contract yet

The Nets have no operations at the moment, and even Thomas Jr. has not renewed the contract. It is said that the two sides have not reached a contract. Thomas wants a contract with an annual salary of 30 million, but the Nets do not agree.

However, the Nets' total salary next season is only $114 million, the last in the league, with 25 million left to the Poor Ghost Line, and the NBA Poor Ghost Line is 139 million. Many people don't know what the Poor Ghost Line is, let's talk about it in detail. The "poor ghost line" of the NBA is the league-specified lower limit of the team's total salary, officially named "lower cap limit". The total salary of each team in one season must reach at least the lower limit of the salary cap, otherwise they will face penalties.

NBA sets the standard, and the "poor return" is usually about 90% of the salary cap of the season (the specific value is adjusted with the salary cap every year). For example, if the salary cap is $100 million in a certain season, the Poor Ghost Line could be about $90 million. The role of this standard is mainly to ensure the overall income of players, to avoid teams saving expenses by deliberately lowering wages, and to maintain a balance of competition in the league.

Of course, if you do not reach the "poor ghost line", you will also have to accept a fine, and the difference must be allocated to the players of the team in proportion to compensation. Moreover, they are not eligible to share the luxury tax equally next season, and the Nets scored 11.53 million last season.

Therefore, even if the Nets don't want to spend money, they have to increase the players' salary, otherwise some of the gains will be more than worth the loss. However, the Nets are not panicked, not only because Thomas has not renewed his contract, but also the Cumingga they have always wanted. The Warriors have not yet confirmed the stay or left of Kumingga. Although they have offered a contract of 7.9 million, they hope to sign it first and then exchange it to gain more benefits.

So the Nets have full salary space to take over Kumingga's contract, because they have 40 million left to their salary cap, it depends on how much they can win Kumingga in the end, and then renew Thomas, probably wanting to win these two people directly with 40 million.

However, the Nets also have their own considerations. They don’t want to give players a long-term contract now and prepare for the future, so they want to have salary space every year. Currently, the Nets are full of rookie players, but they still have no team core. This year they hope to get Harper and want to make a deal with the 76ers to get a Tanhua sign. It is estimated that the 76ers wanted to take the opportunity to deal with George, but in the end the two sides did not reach an agreement and finally chose five rookies. Some fans joked that the Nets directly chose a starting lineup...

There are US media reports that the Nets are not in a hurry at all now. They are waiting to buy the Warriors at the bottom, because the Warriors are very difficult for Kumingga, and the Warriors can only have half the transaction value of Kumingga's contract issue. However, the Warriors wanted to get the draft pick as compensation, so both sides kept dragging it. But the Warriors are definitely anxious in the end, because they have to sign Kumingga in the end, no matter what, they have to sign Kumingga. If there is too much, they can't sign it, and if there is no less, they can't stay.

Nets have been playing badly since the disbandment of the Big Three, and there is no cornerstone for building a team. 2026 is the year of the draft, and it is estimated that they will still play badly next season. Anonymous executive of the Nets said, "Next season we will give rookies a lot of playing time, and at the same time we match old players, the team also needs scorers. Porter Jr. will become that person. It is hard to say that he will become the scoring champion, but he is also very close to this level."