http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....b-on-paying-luxury-tax-next-season-no-choice/ Are you prepared to go into the tax next summer to keep this team together? -LACOB: Committed or not committed, I don’t think we have any other choice. Numbers would dictate–anyone can look at them–that we’re very likely in the luxury tax and very likely very substantially, next year. And you know what? We’re OK with that. I tell Bob all the time; he keeps asking me, ‘Are you sure?’ We’re prepared to do whatever it takes to win a championship; I’ve said that before. You want to do it when the timing is right. Maybe the timing’s right, right? We’re pretty good. And so, I think we need to take advantage of that and go for it.
And the runner up. http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2014/10/dan_gilbert_assured_lebron_jam.html Dan Gilbert assures LeBron James Cleveland Cavaliers will spend to maintain championship-level team http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12140955/cleveland-cavaliers-wheeling-dealing-cost-luxury-tax Cavaliers' luxury-tax burden to grow