MAVS NEWS:

[F Gump]

 
As we learned a couple of seasons ago, they won’t take themselves to just under the tax and hope to stay under it.  Using the full $12mm on someone would take us just under the tax.    

Yes Nico The Complete Idiot blithely ignored the tax line in 2025, and even did so for no good reason. In fact, the team is STILL saddled with the consequence of that completely useless trade in which he PAID a pick to add a meh player with a bloated contract that runs forever (Martin), for no benefit whatsoever, and pushed the team into paying tax when they really didn't have to.

I would hope that Masai isn't that idiotic, and that Dumont wouldn't fall for that again either (IIRC as I posted at the time of the trade, then through the summer, and as as it played out, it stood to cost the team over $100M in extra tax, from that needless act of not caring about the tax line). If you think they would do that again, yikes. 

I have to think and hope they (esp Masai) are much smarter than that, and that in a going-nowhere season like they have ahead (trying hard, hoping to be way better, but not winning a title this time), they will not consider any moves that have them paying tax. Let that repeater tax reset for now.