NBA salary-cap glossary
The league's baseline spending line. Teams can go over it using exceptions — the real walls are the tax and apron lines above it.
CBA 2023 Art. VII §6 (trades by teams with room)
Rulebook entry: salary-matching.room-absorption
A team under the cap can absorb salary into its room instead of matching; the engine picks whichever path makes the trade legal and says which one it used.
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