dean456 wrote:MettaWorldPanda wrote:AirP. wrote:
What? The state tax is 12.3%, for the rest of the ~207 million he's old, he'd be giving up around 25 million dollars just in state taxes, who knows how much he's paying in federal taxes and there's also his agent's cut but those are the same no matter where he plays. That's a lot of money.
Back to the matter at hand, why would he turn down the chance to play with the Clippers? Health concerns with the star players? They've been healthy enough to make the conference finals once since acquiring Kawhi and George.
So the money it'll cost plus the health concerns would be a big issue for someone finally leaving the franchise he's been all career long.
You still don't get it. Washington is just trying to get off Beal's money and his talent to be able to tank and get franchise changing talent. If they can get expiring contracts to clear cap room for next summer they can be in the same situation OKC and Utah have been in, able to take on other people's bad contracts for picks. Washington couldn't even get hometown kid KD to look at them, they have to develop their own stars. Miami fans are lucky, you're building a great tradition, you're located where others want to live in and currently are showing that even a team with inferior talent can compete with the big dogs. Try rooting for a smaller market team and hope you can develop enough talent to make a little noise in the playoffs and even then they were doing it with Gortat and Nene... unless you want to talk about DeJuan Blair who had no ACLs in his knees.
The only time in recent history that Washington had a very good team is when they got top tier talent from the draft with Wall at #1 and Beal at #3, outside of that it's not been good.
Clippers offer them a clean wipe of the sheet. Them having to take on Duncan does not. I don’t think it’s about clearing the books rather then resetting there timeline with a 23 year old Herro. If it’s about wiping the books then the Clips offer is better. Sure Beal can turn it down but also turning down a good team in a big city and putting the Wiz in an awful position. Most realistic talking heads have mentioned Herro as a centerpiece. Robinson, Lowry, and our picks will not get this over the line. Beal is not going to screw the franchise over.
Herro being the centre piece wouldn't be a deal breaker especially if we get off Robinson's deal. But doing that as well as multiple picks would be too much in my opinion.
If they want multiple picks it has to be Lowry and Robinson as the players moving.
I just don't think there's a team out there that's giving multiple picks that Beal will agree to go to unless it's Brooklyn and they can make other moves to get better enough to compete.
Right, if your Beal and you're going to LAC, Miami or Milwaukee are you going to want them sending a bunch of assets for you or do you want your new team to have as many assets as possible to continue to upgrade the team? It's not like he's going to leave wherever he goes next, teams can't dump him, his NTC doesn't change if allows a team to trade for him, so he's going to want to have success the whole time he's with his new team and how does that happen, by not giving away assets they didn't have to.
Way back in around 2007-08 or somewhere around that time, a video overseas popped up of Kobe saying he was going to Chicago. Why did he want to go to Chicago? To play with Luol Deng, so when Kobe tried to force a trade every single time LAL would ask for Deng to make sure Kobe wouldn't want to go.
