(10-15-2022, 04:47 PM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: So much for the tax hurting the Warriors. Damn.
They didn't pay him max money (and in fact did AW's new deal starting salary at more than $20M below AW's max) - which is obviously helping lessen the tax hit* ... but they may still whittle some more, because "as is," it's still going to be massive. We'll see.
EDIT - They are still staring at a tax bill of over 300M and total player-payroll cost of about $525M. If you compare that to the tax free team (which would be under $160M total), that's an extra $360M they are burning on player payroll compared to everyone else. I don't think they will be willing and able to choke that down.
* Will run the "looming tax hit" numbers for GS 2023-24 later -- now nowhere near HALF A BILLION (which was figured based on a projected total team salary of a bit over $240M).