Luxury Tax Hell

[StrandedOnBeauboisHill]

Cuban said: “We’re going to be in luxury tax hell next year, but that’s OK; it frees up the year after that." But let's see what happens, because it's easy to say "salaries expire" but ignore "of course, we either have to re-sign those players then, or pay someone else to replace them" -- which then can jump the salary total right back up again.

The trick will be in whether they can find good replacements that are just as good, but less costly. We know who they need to move (see Hardaway, Tim) but can they get back someone that's both more helpful and cheaper. I'm thinking it's not that easy, and ....

100%.  We always talk about Maxi as an expiring next year and then you watch games like last night and look at how we're playing defense in general this season and it's hard to imagine losing him and his replacement being better AND cheaper.

Hell, a lot of us on this board talk about how we need ANOTHER Maxi, not just an upgrade.  To your point, hard to see how we continue to get better while magically getting below the tax line at this point.