(05-27-2021, 11:41 AM)StepBackJay Wrote: The luxury tax has actual real penalties. I don't care about Cubes' money but being in the luxury tax is not a good thing to be in unless its for locking up multiple max player stars. If Mavs by some chance find themselves with 3 max stars then luxury tax makes okay sense but otherwise it doesn't benefit the team. You lose the full MLE and trading matching is harder.I think it depends on how you want to look at it. If you get into the tax, you have those downsides, but hopefully you only got into the tax because you’ve built a good/contending team.
If you successfully avoid the tax by not resigning guys, not trading for guys, dumping your draft picks, etc, then you probably have a worse team on the court and less assets in the war chest for the benefit of having some available opportunities. Those opportunities also may never emerge, or maybe your FO won’t even go after them because that will put you into the tax, or now because you don’t have that young player or value contract you have less assets to make deals with.
If the pieces align and you can build a contender while staying under the tax that’s great I guess, but I think you just have to hope for a good FO and let the money end up where it ends up.
Also, with Luka, we shouldn’t be aiming for just 1 championship. We should be thinking dynasty, and that will certainly require the tax at some point.