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The Jazz have about 68 million comitted to 9 players in Williams, Price, Miles , Kirilenko, Haywood, Milsap, Jefferson ,Okur, Fes. The Luxury tax is about 71 million given the jazz about 3 million to spend.

You are missing about 2 mil committed to Jeffers, Gaines and Evans. I believe we may already be over the lux tax line by 1.7 mil or so.

The Sheik wrote:You are missing about 2 mil committed to Jeffers, Gaines and Evans. I believe we may already be over the lux tax line by 1.7 mil or so.

That was before we got rid of Kosta's contract

If we bring back Fes for 1 million we are right at about 69 million. Under contract then we look like this.

Deron/Price
CJ
Kirilenko/Hayward
Millsap
Jefferson/Okur/Fesenko

So we are about 2 million under the luxury tax as of today with 4 players left to sign. If we do sign Brewer that will put us over the luxury tax, and then once again we are looking at 3 minimum salary guys.

Well right now we are at about 66.8M, and are like $4 under the Luxury Tax treshold. The Jazz don't have Fes YET, though I figure they plan on keeping him. If the Jazz go after Mathews, he would have to pay about $5M in luxury tax to fill out the roster, which really is not THAT bad.

AK - 17823000
Deron - 14940153
Jefferson - 13000000
Okur - 9945000
Millsap - 7600000
Miles - 3700000
Price - 1381250
Hayward - 1227200
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total = 69,616,603
Tax threshold = 70,307,000

So, without some more trades we'll be paying tax this year.

It's kind of apple's and oranges, but if you count the non-guaranteed contracts of Evans, Gaines and Jeffers and the QO of Fes we are right at the tax line.

management is fine with paying a couple of mil in the tax this season, like last season. But I agree that we won't be bringing in more than one more guy for 2-3mil.

the fun part about the redistributive nature of the tax line is that the more teams over the tax, the better it is to stay under it... but in a season like next season, when not that many teams are over the cap, it's nto that big of a deal to go a few mil over the tax. still dollar for dollar, but the bonus you get as incentive to stay under is much lower with less teams over to contribute, and more teams under splitting the pie.