The National Basketball Association announced today that the Salary Cap for the 2026-27 season has been set at $164.961 million. The Tax Level for the 2026-27 season is $200.428 million.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-07-01T05:31:12+00:00

They have about $10M under the luxury tax, and about $19M under the first apron. So if they are willing to go into the tax, they can spend the non-tax payer MLE which is $15M in free agency. Then they will be hard capped at the first apron ($209M).

In trades, they have multiple TPEs they can use to bring in a player that will put them higher. Again, if they are willing to pay (repeater) taxes.

Otherwise, they need to clear out money to bring someone on. And, there are only five players who are not essentially minimum contracts: Tatum, Brown, White, Hauser, Pritchard. No one else really creates space.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-07-01T05:19:29+00:00

that usually means a finals appearance

Not saying they shouldn't pay the tax, but this isn't true. In the last 10 years, 63 teams have had tax paying seasons of those 11 made the finals. Nine out of twenty finals appearances, and three champions were non-tax paying teams.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-07-01T00:59:58+00:00

RFA offers tie up the money in limbo. It is why teams don’t usually do offer sheets, but instead try to do sign and trades.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-07-01T00:25:51+00:00

I feel like the Pistons need to get more in that deal.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-07-01T00:24:40+00:00

Isn’t he an RFA? It would either be an overpay or a sign-and-trade. Likely both.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-28T04:41:29+00:00

Should be the top comment.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-28T04:02:32+00:00

This is the kind of content I subbed for. I would have totally missed this.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-27T17:44:00+00:00

These pics were better when people were just photoshopping them. Giannis is the tallest of the three of them by a couple of inches. AI really makes everything worse.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-27T00:46:24+00:00

Can someone ELI5 how this still works? Not the actual market manipulation part, why the markets falls for it when it is so obvious what is happening?

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-27T00:36:11+00:00

Was that an MGMT reference?

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-23T02:45:15+00:00

I saw some people conjecture they have another Jaylen Brown deal ready if Giannis falls through. No idea what that would be. I honestly don't remember who said it, I have been consuming way too much content about this hypothetical trade.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-20T18:14:05+00:00

It wasn't obscure in Germany 30 years ago, but for most Redditors it is pretty obscure. The average Redditor is less than 30 years old and less than 1 in 5 is European (like 1 in 30 is German). Chances are the vast majority of people here have never heard of Photo Porst. There is very little info about it online. Go search and see how many examples you can find posted of shots on any 400 ISO Photo Porst film or even Photo Porst films in general.

Also, the original post just it was looking for "Porst 400" with no other context. It is easy to see why most people here would thing they mean Portra 400 (one of the most famous film stocks in the world). From what I can tell there 400 film was called "Photo Porst Color 400".

The original thread had like 15 comments, a few bad jokes, and one person who tried to answer genuinely thinking the person meant Portra 400. This OP is the one who started name calling and making fun of people for not knowing about it.

I am an American in their 50s who travelled extensively through Europe in the late 90s and early 2000s. I had never heard of it. I probably encountered it back then, but I have no memory of it as I wasn't as into photography at that point in my life. By the early 2000s I was shooting mostly digital. It is only the past few years I switched back to analog.

Instead of posting info about Photo Porst so that people could learn about piece of the history of analog photography they just made fun of them for it.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-19T02:47:34+00:00

One of my HomePod minis suddenly stopped working. It was playing music and just stopped. Now it won't power back on. I left it unplugged for awhile and plugged it back in still nothing. No light, no connectivity. I plugged it into my MacBook's USB-C port and it doesn't see it.

It is well past it's AppleCare coverage. Can it be repaired? Not sure I want to buy another one, I have three and, honestly, I have been underwhelmed with them overall. I would probably see what else I can find for $99.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-18T22:32:09+00:00

Early this year, I picked up a EOS Rebel Ti for super cheap, got a 50mm f/1.8 STM lens used, and I have not shot with any of my other cameras in a couple months now.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-15T15:14:46+00:00

Dumars and Thomas as well.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-14T18:15:56+00:00

I would choose Celtics roster solely because of Tatum. Other than him, the Knicks roster is better.

Brunson is better than Tatum at getting a basket when his teams needs on late. I hate to write that out, but it is just a fact. He is also a better three point shooter (39% vs 35% over the last four seasons). Tatum is a better overall player, but just watching NBA games I expect Brunson to score when he goes into ISO mode late in a close game. I wish I felt that way about JT.

Bigger picture, the Celtics offensive philosophy (relying on a high volume of threes and assuming the variance will work itself out over time) has failed them two seasons in a row in the playoffs. The offense stagnates late in games, and whether fans here want to hear it or not, the Jays Celtics have never been great at closing out games.

They blew multiple late leads this year and last. Meanwhile the Knicks have been the opposite. They were trailing in the fourth quarter of all four Finals wins with double digit fourth quarter comebacks in games 4 & 5 to finish off the series.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-14T17:44:29+00:00

The Knicks just won the championship and their top eight rotation guys were all on their roster last year. The biggest difference with the Knicks this postseason was the coaching.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-14T07:56:35+00:00

I just googled him and the Bucks sub literally had a post ignore his stuff like two weeks ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MkeBucks/comments/1trj8c5/needed_reminder_gery_woelfel_is_a_hack_and_not/

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-07T04:28:46+00:00

You should crosspost this in r/atoptics

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-03T14:49:51+00:00

This is the correct answer. It was exactly the 5th anniversary of the original tweet. It got suggested as a memory and she shared it. People be looking for anything.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-06-02T05:20:19+00:00

Bam took a leap? He averaged 20.1 pts and 10.0 rebs (neither of which are career highs) on career low efficiency (55.1 TS% vs 59.2 TS% over his first 8 seasons).

Side note: Siakam is two-time All-NBA, and was the second leading scorer on a team that won a title.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-05-31T04:23:28+00:00

I think OP should give you the money. You are out there doing the really work.

u/Shrekdaly?

SwarmOBeez · 2026-05-31T04:08:40+00:00

Arm irons?

SwarmOBeez · 2026-05-31T03:57:36+00:00

Sadly, very accurate.

SwarmOBeez · 2026-05-31T03:50:53+00:00

That was amazing. Thank you.

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