Trade & FA 2024-25:

[Jym]

Next year the real teeth of the tax begins at the $10M-above-the-line point, and it's harsher with repeater status. (That's GS, LAL, LAC, MIL)

Under that, and it's only $1.25 (or less) if you aren't a repeater. That's at Apron 1 or a bit higher.

The repeater add-on is now $2.00 tax for every taxable dollar, in addition to the regular tax.

Over $10M above the tax line and it is expensive. From there the next dollar is taxed $3.50 for non-repeater, and $5.50 for a repeater. Or more as you get to another bracket. It piles on. It gets very expensive very quickly. By the time you get to Apron 2-ish, you're at the point where each additional dollar in salary costs a tax of $5.25 or $7.25 per dollar, depending on repeater or not. It's nasty. Adding a single minimum salary player at that point would cost a repeater team about $19M in real dollars.

That Celtics team is going to get blown into bits in a couple years