Team salaries

Luxury tax numbers won't be set until later this month, but there is some indication that the overall could go down thanks to a huge balloon payment involving the Lakers that could shift the tv revenue fairly significantly.

The Rockets probably have to be over $57 million to hit the threshold. At least that's what I read earlier this summer. That may have changed.

 

The salary figure provided at the Hoops-hype website does not include the salaries of Sura, Ward, and Padgett yet since noone knows the exact numbers. It's probably around $56 mil if Padgett signed around minimum.

 

So the rumors that SP got a 5 year deal were wrong?

 

That was a complete joke man. It was actually a 7 year deal for 77 million.

 

ward and sura most likely split the MLE. something like: sura - $3.4M, and ward $2M.....then add padgett for the vet min of around $1M.