Do the Chicago Bulls have cap space in 2027-28?

The 2027-28 salary cap is $176.6M (projected), and the Bulls' cap salary (contracts, dead money, and cap holds for their own free agents) adds up to $126.6M. That leaves $49.9M they can spend directly on outside free agents, with no matching rules.

Room teams also keep the room mid-level exception ($10.0M) for one more signing after the space is used. The trade-off is that opening room usually means renouncing their own free agents and the Bird rights that come with them.

This is a forward look at 2027-28: it counts the contracts, options, and cap holds already on the Bulls books for that season. Signings, trades, and option decisions between now and then will move these numbers.