which means it's just an additional $2M drop over what had been expected. $102M was the initial projection prior to the season but a couple months ago they adjusted that to $101M. Either way, it does make things a little bit tighter than expected for teams in free agency. Max Salary for Hayward will now be $29.7M. The max for players w/ 10+ years of experience is $34.65M.

Celtics still have plenty of room to offer a max contract, though. Tyler Zeller's $8M contract is non-guaranteed. If they waived him that would give them $35M in cap space. They would have to renounce bird rights for Amir Johnson, Jonas Jerebko, and Kelly Olynyk as well, but if they felt adding Hayward would benefit them over keeping those 4 players then they could easily do it.