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Re BOS, their financial hit that's looming is so extreme that their owner decided to sell the team, even though they are on top with a team positioned to keep winning. Seriously.

Your cap numbers are way high. This season it's $140.6M, and next season should be about $154.6M.

Using your payroll numbers for them, according to my tax calculator, this year they are looking at a "Payroll + Tax" financial outlay of about $265M (in the context of the revenues of a $141M cap world), and next summer in a $155M cap world they are staring at a "Payroll + Tax" financial outlay of $400M! I can see them finding a way to choke that down this season, but I can't imagine they would be willing to pay that number next season (which means they will move to offload a big chunk of salary).

Thanks for the correction. I mis-read the salary cap values, but that makes it even more painful for BOS.

Like you, I'm not sure how they will keep it together beyond this season. But I'm sure their fans will not like it.