History of The Luxury Tax

[Commodore]

Interesting stuff in here. NYK is unreal.

http://blog.shamsports.com/2012/07/w...ven-teams.html

	2002/03	2003/04	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	TOTAL
Atlanta	3,716,000								666,199	4,382,199
Boston		1,594,066			8,218,368	8,294,664	14,928,662	5,692,586	7,365,867	46,094,213
Brooklyn/New Jersey	5,730,000	9,390,383								15,120,383
Charlotte										0
Chicago										0
Cleveland					14,008,561	13,707,010	15,410,550			43,126,121
Dallas	18,500,000	25,031,932	17,329,324	7,204,968	19,613,295	23,611,661	17,582,574	18,917,836	2,738,843	150,530,433
Denver				2,022,418	13,572,079		5,562,942			21,157,439
Detroit		756,627								756,627
Golden State										0
Houston								757,145		757,145
Indiana	892,000	3,323,059	4,674,028							8,889,087
L.A. Clippers										0
L.A. Lakers	9,749,000	8,439,051			5,131,757	7,185,631	21,430,778	19,923,772	12,557,264	84,417,253
Memphis	7,554,000		3,743,452							11,297,452
Miami	5,180,000				8,318,879		3,039,769		6,129,340	22,667,988
Milwaukee	4,734,000									4,734,000
Minnesota	6,026,000	17,633,006		998,536						24,657,542
New Orleans										0
New York	24,371,000	39,867,214	37,248,752	45,142,002	19,723,946	23,736,207	5,199,024			195,288,145
Oklahoma City/Seattle										0
Orlando			7,757,500				11,046,595	20,147,413		38,951,508
Philadelphia	12,759,000	5,098,635								17,857,635
Phoenix	1,888,000				3,867,313	4,918,136	4,958,790			15,632,239
Portland	51,971,000	28,846,436				5,899,356		2,335,682		89,052,474
Sacramento	17,377,000	13,141,745								30,518,745
San Antonio	187,000		889,895	196,082			8,810,302		2,514,275	12,597,554
Toronto	2,681,000	4,090,836								6,771,836
Utah							3,105,372	4,998,247		8,103,619
Washington										0
Total	173,315,000	157,212,990	71,642,951	55,564,006	92,454,198	87,352,665	111,075,358	72,772,681	31,971,788	853,361,637

[iconoclastic]

Looks like Les Alexander is one of the cheapest owners in the league.

[carayip]

Originally Posted by iconoclastic Looks like Les Alexander is one of the cheapest owners in the league.

Chicago? No 1 regular season for 2 straight seasons but never paid the tax.

And LAC? Utah? OKC? SAS? All these teams having squads contending worthy at one time, yet paid next to none tax.

I believe Alexander will pay if we have a legit contending squad. I would call him smart spending rather than being cheap.

And lol at NY, all this money for one playoffs win in that span. At least Houston had one series.

[carayip]

Not to mention Chicago is a top 3 market and one of the most profitable franchises. Rose has like the best selling jersey. It's amazing how little they spent.

[Rockets Jones]

Thank you for this, now we can finally end the debate on Alexander being a great owner. He's average to good and calling him cheap is a legitimate argument, you only need these numbers to prove it.

[HMMMHMM]

OMG, Les is cheap!

Look, Alexander may not be a big spender like Cuban, Dolan, Pau Allen or the Busses, but calling him cheap isn't appropriate IMO. Les just spends his money smartly.

There aren't a whole lot of owners as aggressive as him when it purchasing draft picks and signing guys at the end of the season to basically serve no other purpose than be on the roster as a trade filler for the off-season.
He just paid Scola a lot of money not to play basketball for him.

You must understand that being in the luxury tax just isn't a smart investment if you can avoid it. There obviously are cases in which you want your owner to pay the tax, but I can't recall the Rockets being in such situation over the last few years.
(The Thunder FWIW soon will be in that situation.)

[carayip]

Originally Posted by Rockets Jones Thank you for this, now we can finally end the debate on Alexander being a great owner. He's average to good and calling him cheap is a legitimate argument, you only need these numbers to prove it.

How could this prove that Alexander is not a great owner? When is the last time he had a squad worthy to overspend? Please understand smart spending /= cheap. At least he's not as stupid as the Knicks owner.

[apollo33]

Lol

The city of New York

[rockbox]

Originally Posted by carayip Not to mention Chicago is a top 3 market and one of the most profitable franchises. Rose has like the best selling jersey. It's amazing how little they spent.

Rose was on his rookie contract until this season and bulls sucked big time before Rose.

[da_juice]

Dallas operates like NY and gets praise. Cuban got lucky Chandler panned out.

[CDrex]

Gotta love Clutchfans. Spending 200 mil on luxury tax = terrible owner; not paying luxury tax = terrible owner.

We already knew who the big spenders were. The far more interesting part of the chart to me is how dramatically the total dipped this year. Maybe that's MOSTLY because of the amnesty, but also the new CBA has clearly changed the priorities at least a little.

[ElPigto]

Originally Posted by da_juice Dallas operates like NY and gets praise. Cuban got lucky Chandler panned out.

Dallas has actually been competitive though.

[akxninja]

What stuck out most to me was Portland's 02-03 team paid 51m in luxury tax. That was when they were at their downfall paying Pippen 19m for avg production at the tail end of his career. They still had Shawn Kemp on their payroll for 14m http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/2003.html despite him not being on the roster. They were such a deep team when they still had Steve Smith though. Closest thing to the 04 Pistons team or vice versa rather.

[carayip]

Originally Posted by da_juice Dallas operates like NY and gets praise. Cuban got lucky Chandler panned out.

Dallas had 1 title, 2 Finals and multiple WCF appearances and top regular season records for several seasons. While NY won a grand total of 1 game and the best regular season finish was a 7th seed in the same span. It's easy to know how gets praise and who gets criticism. Lol.