NBA Cap Towers

Every NBA team's payroll since 1990, stacked player by player against the salary cap.

An interactive dashboard that draws each team's payroll as a tower of player salaries. All 30 towers share one dollar scale, so teams are easy to compare, and dashed lines mark that season's salary floor, cap, luxury tax and aprons.

• Scrub or auto-play through 37 seasons, from 1990-91 to 2026-27.

• Tap a player for their stats, salary history and career earnings.

• Sort teams by payroll, wins, playoff finish or revenue.

• Turn on trade mode and drag a contract onto another team to see both payrolls change.

• Save or share any team's tower as an image.

Salaries come from HoopsHype and stats from Basketball-Reference. Data is current to September 28, 2026.