About Apron

What is Apron?

Apron is an NBA front office intelligence platform. It gives basketball fans, analysts, and media professionals the ability to ask real front office questions: trade feasibility, salary cap implications, and apron status. Every answer is grounded in actual CBA rules, not approximations.

Data & Accuracy

Salary data covers all 30 teams with confirmed contracts through the 2026-27 season, including multi-year projections up to 5 years per player. Contract option flags (player options, team options, early termination options) and real trade exceptions are tracked for all 30 teams. During the offseason, Apron automatically uses 2026-27 cap thresholds for all calculations. Under 5% of queries may be affected by contracts not yet officially confirmed. Roster moves and signings after the last data update may not be reflected.

How It Works

• 1Salary data is sourced and updated periodically from Basketball Reference and Hoops Rumors
• 2CBA rules are encoded directly into the system: salary matching thresholds, first and second apron restrictions, traded player exceptions, and hard cap triggers
• 3Queries are processed by Claude (Anthropic), with CBA math handled by a deterministic rules engine, not AI guesswork
• 4Simple queries use a lightweight model; complex trade validations use a more powerful model automatically

Who Is This For?

• NBA fans who want to fact-check trades they see on social media
• Die-hard cap nerds who want to understand apron rules and salary matching
• Media and analysts covering trades and roster moves
• Friends who argue about trades and need a definitive answer