WYC GROUSBECK and his family may have I have just sold the Boston Celtics in Bill Chisholm and its investors for a record of 6.1 billion dollars. Grousbeck will remain a team governor and work with the new owners until 2028.
This has raised a big question: the Boston Celtics are about to become historically expensive, Chisholm and his team will they pay to keep a championship team together? Next season, the payroll of Celtics should be around $ 230 million – they have $ 225 million on books without signing Al Horford or Luke Kornet again, both free agents – and this would provide a luxury tax bill of around 270 million dollars, or a total of $ 500 million to keep this continuous assembly? Will new owners pay this?
The question is not money, it is the second penalties of deck basketball that will prevent Boston from living above the tax line, Groubeck said in a recent appearance of weekends.
“This is not the luxury tax bill, these are basketball penalties. The new CBA was designed by the League to prevent teams from becoming crazy. They decided that it was not good enough to go after the wallets because the fans can be: “ hey, find someone who can afford to spend $ 500 million a year or anything, like the English Premier …
“Basketball penalties mean that it is even more a bonus so that your Director General of Basketball is brilliant and lucky. Because you have to sail because you cannot stay in the second apron, no one will do it, I predict, during the next 40 years of the ACB, no one will remain in the second apron for more than two years.”
Grousbeck tells the truth. What are these restrictions? The teams of the second apron cannot:
• overall wages of trades, they can only send one player (more choices)
• Take more salary than they send in a trade,
• Send money in the professions
• Use the intermediate level exception
• Make a sign and exchange agreement
• cannot sign anyone on the buyout market which has made more than the intermediate level exception
• I cannot exchange his choice of recovery of first round ts seven years in the future (2032 for Boston this summer). If a team is on the second apron for two of the next four years after that (or three out of five), then Pick falls at the end of the first round (it doesn’t matter where the team falls in the standings).
The second apron restrictions make the constitution of the team almost impossible, and this is one of the reasons why the Clippers and the Warriors – two teams in ownership more than ready to spend – fell below this apron this season.
Grousbeck did everything possible in the interview to rent Brad Stevens, but the way in which the executive of the Celtics will obtain this team below this tax line is not easy to consider. Next season, Jayson Tatum will earn $ 54.1 million when his new maximum agreement will undertake, Jaylen Brown will earn $ 53.1 million, Jrue Holiday is $ 32.4 million, Kristaps Porzingis at $ 30.7 million and Derrick White at $ 28.1 million. There will be no easy cuts.
Do not expect the Celtics to spend this freely. The second apron is not a hard cap, but in the predictable future, it will act as one.
