NBA Teams Detail 2025-26 Trade Cash Activity
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The 2025-26 NBA league year allows each franchise to include up to $7,964,000 in cash when completing trades. Once a club hits that ceiling, it must wait until the next league year before attaching more money to a deal.
Sending and receiving limits are tracked independently. A team that both sends and receives the full allotment exhausts its flexibility on both fronts for the season.
Cash often sweetens a trade—either to pry away a draft pick or to help another club absorb an unwanted contract. In some cases, money is added simply to satisfy collective bargaining rules.
Second apron restriction: Any organization operating above the NBA’s second tax apron cannot include outgoing cash. Entering the season, that prohibition applies to the Cleveland Cavaliers; they may only send money if their salary picture falls below the apron.
Cash Sent and Received to Date
Atlanta Hawks
Sent: $1,500,000 to the Timberwolves
Received: $85,300 from the Rockets
Cash still available to send: $6,464,000
Cash still available to receive: $7,878,700
Boston Celtics
Received: $1,100,000 from the Nets
Cash still available to send: $7,964,000
Cash still available to receive: $6,864,000
Brooklyn Nets
Sent: $1,100,000 to the Celtics
Cash still available to send: $6,864,000
Cash still available to receive: $7,964,000
Houston Rockets
Sent: $85,300 to the Hawks
Cash still available to send: $7,878,700
Cash still available to receive: $7,964,000
Indiana Pacers
Sent: $2,500,000 to the Spurs
Cash still available to send: $5,464,000
Cash still available to receive: $7,964,000
Los Angeles Clippers
Sent: $2,500,000 to the Jazz
Cash still available to send: $5,464,000
Cash still available to receive: $7,964,000
Los Angeles Lakers
Sent: $3,250,000 to the Timberwolves
Cash still available to send: $4,714,000
Cash still available to receive: $7,964,000
Minnesota Timberwolves
Received: $3,250,000 from the Lakers; $1,500,000 from the Hawks
Cash still available to send: $7,964,000
Cash still available to receive: $3,214,000
San Antonio Spurs
Received: $2,500,000 from the Pacers
Cash still available to send: $7,964,000
Cash still available to receive: $5,464,000
Utah Jazz
Received: $2,500,000 from the Clippers
Cash still available to send: $7,964,000
Cash still available to receive: $5,464,000
All other teams—the Bulls, Hornets, Cavaliers, Mavericks, Nuggets, Pistons, Warriors, Grizzlies, Heat, Bucks, Pelicans, Knicks, Thunder, Magic, 76ers, Suns, Trail Blazers, Kings, Raptors and Wizards—have yet to move any money this league year and maintain the full $7,964,000 allowance on both the sending and receiving sides.
The totals will reset on July 1, when the 2026-27 league year officially opens. Until then, clubs can continue to deploy their remaining cash allotments in trades ahead of the 2026 trade deadline and during the early-summer transaction window.
Source: Hoops Rumors
