Future Rockets Concerns: How Much Tax Can the Rockets Handle?

Please make sure to distinguish between being over the cap and over the tax line. Being over the salary cap does not instantly trigger the luxury tax. Your post sort of mixes the terminology so I'm not clear if your analysis is properly accounting for the numbers.

 

there is no "I don't care about the rich option?

 

For the sake of accuracy, you can't do what you just described. Free agents continue to count against the cap until resigned or renounced. Without first resigning the big 3 first, the Heat have no cap room so they could not sign Anthony.

The only way the Heat could sign Anthony is if they first resign the big 3 for lower salaries and leave enough cap space to sign Anthony. Based upon Anthony's expected salary, the fact that Lebron wants the max and that Bosh wants $15M or more then it's pretty much impossible unless Wade takes a minimum deal.

 

Who cares how much they pay in tax? It's not our money.

 

contribute 5 bucks then edit it ...

 

Les needs to spend that $ on making the team better.
For years he has never paid L-Tax

 

billionaire issues... ill let Les decide what he can and can not afford..

 

Les need to keep his word and go all in.

 

This year doesn't matter. They have another cheap year for Harden so if you are going to go over the lux tax, that's the year to do so.(only concern is the hard cap issues)

Next year (2015/16) will matter for Les & Morey.

The goal will most likely be for the 2015/16 season to stay under 81 million(luxury tax) in salaries to avoid the repeater tax out of respect for Les & the business side of the Rockets, and for Morey his goal will most likely be to avoid the hard cap to not lose flexibility.

If the Rockets resign Parsons to the max, and bring in Bosh at the max, I am coming up with a number that will be close to 86 million before accounting for Beverley's pay day after free agency.

The Rockets have some work to do to shave some money if they want to keep Parsons & sign Bosh. If Bosh really does get the max, I would be willing to bet that Morey actually might either S&T Parsons if he truly does get the max or maybe even let him walk. However I think they might very well have a deal in place already to get Parsons on a smaller 12 mil a year type salary. If they can keep the contract in that range, I think they can still keep everyone together.

Even if they did want to, they could keep everyone, but they flirt with the possibility of hitting the hard cap # which I guarantee Morey doesn't want to do if he can avoid it.

Its going to be interesting if Morey makes this signing, but my guess (like the Lin & Asik contracts) he's already thinking 7 steps ahead of us, and has found some crazy way he can structure the Parsons contract to help them out with this issue to stay below the hard cap.

 

Considering us fans spend our relatively puny paychecks on merchandise and to see our team win, owners should approach the sport wanting to win first.

If profit is their number one concern then the door is over there. There are plenty of other avenues they can invest their money in and have a much larger return.

 

My perspective on owners paying luxury tax has always been:

-Never, ever pay luxury tax for a bottom-20 team
-If you have a team that WILL unquestionably contend for the title every year, you pay up to $20M in tax no matter what, for as long as it takes
-Don't be like the Nets

But $20 million is 150 times more money than I've even made in my life, so it's just an abstraction to me. I don't really begrudge the owners for being cautious.

Spoiler

Unless they're like the cheap-ass Hornets team I signed with in NBA2k13 that started with Anthony Davis, Dirk Nowitzki, Ryan Anderson, Eric Gordon, Al-Farouq Aminu, Xavier Henry, Robin Lopez and Aaron Brooks and without ever even crossing the salary cap, much less the tax, four years later it was just Davis, Gordon, and a hundred late-first-round and second-round rookie flotsam fillers. Totally off topic but it made me really mad.

 

I Donated 10 dollars to clutchfans and still haven't received that privilege so I call bs.

 

Clutch will get to it but give him time. It's not an automatic thing.

 

There is also the rise in team valuation that is harder to determine.

 

lol ive contributed way more than that to the tip jar and i still dont have contributing status.

 

especially since you are the guy saying spend what it takes.