They make $2.4, but their cap figure is only $1.47, actually $1.51 for this season as shown below. https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2018/06/nba-minimum-salaries-for-201819.html
No a S&T hard caps the receiving team at the tax apron (luxury tax line + $6m). The only thing that matters is we under no circumstances can we exceed $129m regardless of exceptions.
I anxiously await my nomination for Pullitzer for this hard hitting journalism. These are the questions Windy and Ramona are scared to ask
If LeBron comes here (he isn't), I will masturbate furiously to pictures of the Larry O'Brien trophy.
I've been trying to think of a way any of this could make sense, but it just doesn't. Chris Paul taking less wouldn't really make this a possibility due to the hard cap.
The way I read it is you can be over salary cap and still sign and trade without being hard capped. Just can’t be over tax and do it, that’s where hard cap comes in. Am I missing something? This is from RealGM: When Teams are Subjected to the Hard Cap: Unsurprisingly, the actions that trigger the hard cap are the things that below the tax teams can do but taxpayers (more specifically, teams over the “apron”) cannot: Acquiring a player via sign-and-trade Using the Bi-Annual Exception Signing a player using the Mid-Level Exception for more than allowed under the Taxpayer Mid-Level Exception
I could be reading it wrong but I interpret that to mean those are actions teams over the apron can’t do, but teams under it can do. And if they do they’ll be hardcapped at the apron.
LeBron James isn’t coming to Houston. His people are supposedly meeting with Philadelphia tonight. LeBron, Leonard, Simmons and Embiid.
