therealbig3 wrote:Honest question, other than paying luxury tax (which is a legit reason, but it's not our money), what is the downside of giving Spencer the max if he asks for it?
Does it prevent us from signing another player or something? Because we're already into the luxury tax, that money would otherwise just not be spent and we'd be stuck signing minimum contracts that aren't anywhere close to as good as Dinwiddie.
HoopsHype wrote:When a club uses the bi-annual exception, acquires a player via sign-and-trade, or uses more than the taxpayer portion ($5,718,000) of the mid-level exception, that club will face a hard cap for the remainder of the league year.
When a team becomes hard-capped, it cannot exceed the “tax apron” at any point during the rest of the league year. The tax apron was set $6MM above the luxury tax line in 2017/18 (the first year of the current Collective Bargaining Agreement) and creeps up a little higher each time the cap increases. For the 2020/21 league year, the tax apron – and hard cap for certain clubs – is set at $138,928,000.
So we're on the books for 154M next season (not including Din's PO), way over the tax apron. But it seems like half the league gets itself hard capped every season and you can still sign players to vet min contracts (Lakers added Drummond after using their bi-annual exception on Matthews and the NTMLE on Harrell)...
It looks like it's far and away a money problem with a minor burden of reduced flexibility that's already kind of implied by limits of the exceptions available to you as a luxury tax team.
The Nets have Brown's full bird rights, he might end up costing a pretty penny depending on the offers he receives. The most we can offer Blake is the TMLE at 6M and we'll probably have to spend every cent of that on him and he'll still have to want to return.
