ConstableGeneva wrote:MagicBagley18 wrote:ConstableGeneva wrote:For salary-matching purposes, yes. But to avoid the tax, no. If avoiding the tax is even a thing. Maybe they just don't care about the tax this season (and the repeater tax penalties that will likely come with it in 2022).
I get that but where have we seen publicly it’s a must to avoid the tax this year? I know it gets harder to avoid moving forward so this would be the year to avoid it but still we are just assuming that
See bolded. I don't know either.
Think avoiding the tax has to be in their minds for two reasons:
1. You need to get under the 132M tax line to be able to use the Full MLE (9.5M) on another free agent so the team can be better
2. Tatum's extension kicks in next year which means we're a lock to be a tax team next year and the year after that. The tax is more costly if you're in it consecutive years. Starting the tax clock a year later is always a good thing.
But at the end of the day, no one knows how big of a factor the tax is. For example, if getting Bogdanovic + Turner results in us being in the tax, would they still avoid that? Nobody knows
