NBA Salary Cap Less Than Projected

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  1. Shapecity

    Shapecity S2/JBB Teamster Staff Member Administrator

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    From Chad Ford ...

     
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    That's good for us, right?

    What is luxury tax?
     
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    Woah, that's low.
     
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    I think it's both good and bad for us.

    Good because other teams will not be able to offer as big a contract for LO and Trevor, bad because it might also limit our capability of signing a new player.

    The Luxury tax is a threshold where, when passed, every exceeding dollar is paid by another dollar. So, if the luxury tax was around 40M, if the team's salary went to about 45M, the team actually pays 50M since the 5M that exceeded the threshold must be paid again.

    Hope you understood it. lol
     
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    No, I think that is bad for us.

    Means the cap doesn't increase, which means Buss will have to shell out more in luxury tax.
     
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    It hurts and helps us. :[
     
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    July 1 is the opening of free agency period right?
     
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    Oh yeah!!! Time to get nervous when I see all the trades happening on nba.com! lol
     
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    It should help us actually. Lakers are one of the few teams willing to pay the luxury tax. Right now only three teams have real cap room Detroit, Oklahoma & Memphis.

    Detroit is probably the only team who would steal Trevor away from us, but they are already invested in Prince. The Thunder has Kevin Durant already at the wing and Memphis has Rudy Gay.

    Toronto Raptors would have to renounce their rights to Marion, Parker & Graham to have enough cap space to sign Ariza.

    Hawks would have to renounce their rights to Marvin Williams & Josh Childress for Ariza.

    Portland would have to renounce their rights to Channing Frye for Ariza. Portland already has a lot of young wing players.
     
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    Salary cap doesn't matter, we're over it anyways.

    I'm just wondering if the luxury tax limit is still the same. The salary cap didn't increase, but I don't think it decreased either. I'm pretty sure it was around 58 million this year as well.
     
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    Soooo, Ariza is safe! lol
     
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    Yeah the luxury tax threshold should be pretty much the same. The Lakers are currently over by $2.5M
     
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    No, 9:00 PM

    Eastern time fail.

    Pacific time win.
     
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    West Coast does own, sorry about that.

    Won't happen again. :O
     
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    Good.

    Brian regulatin' on his hoes.
     
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    Haha I was joking, I'll post whatever time I want.

    But I've been repping West coast for a while now. I'm not bandwagon like you. :]
     
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    Comin' from Miami...
     
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    Lol and what does that prove?

    D.C. native. ;]
     
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