New Orleans Pelicans
2025-26How much flexibility do the New Orleans Pelicans actually have in 2025-26?
NOP 2025-26 carried $191,196,562 of selected player charges (123.6% of the cap), placing it in tax to first apron on selected player charges. Its highest contracted function cost was creation at 22.5% of the cap; highest measured need was passing connectivity. Exact exception and transaction legality is withheld without team cap-hold and exception-use ledgers.
Current cap position
Current position on selected player charges — not every cap hold or dead-money charge.Exact thresholds
Option exposure
Optional decisions ahead — reported amounts, not commitments.Where the money maps
Which basketball functions the payroll is actually buying — shown beside need, never blended.The largest contracted function cost is creation at $34.9M; the highest measured need is passing connectivity.
Acquisition paths
Threshold candidates only — a candidate route is not exact transaction legality.Cash cost: Withheld — no cash-salary sample.
Selected player charges do not include every cap hold, dead-money charge or roster charge.
Threshold route candidates are not exact transaction legality.
Cash, cap and economic commitment remain separate; no universal flexibility or front-office score.