Indiana Pacers: Ultimate 2021 NBA Free Agency Guide

How does the Indiana Pacers’ cap situation look like entering free agency

If you’re expecting the Indiana Pacers to make a big splash in the 2021 NBA free agency, you’ll be best served sitting this one out. Aside from the franchise’s inherent lack of marquee signings as a precedent, the team is far from financially equipped to attract free agents.

Indiana is currently above the league salary cap for the 2021-22 season. That does not even include the cap holds that the team has for its impending free agents, so renouncing these will also not clear space for the team.

Even rerouting Aaron Holiday, who has an outgoing cap space of 3.98 million due to the trade which sent him to Washington for the draft rights to Isaiah Jackson, won’t clear up significant space. Fortunately, the dead space occupied by Monta Ellis is finally entering its final year. Overall, the Pacers are still projected to eclipse the salary cap for the upcoming season, set at 112.4 million.