lol. wut? The dude just gave his own opinion of how the money could potentially be viewed by other parties and you go on a rant about forming opinions? And if you want to get all existential you should also realize all opinions realized by an individual or in some way or shape formed through experiencing and realizing others opinions. To what degree could be argued, but do you know how and where to draw that line.....when an opinion by an individual is predicated "too much" on someone else's?
It is sensationalist to saythat all of that tax is going to lin. They will need to sign other guys as well. Could just as easily tack the luxury tax ongo anyones contract you want. lins contract is only costing them that much because they already have carmelo and amare and chandler. what if you count lins contract first. then its carmelos contract that is no longer 23 but is now 60 million.
I figure it has been posted but I cannot seem to find it anywhere, but why is it the rockets re allowed to spread his salary out to 8.3 mil over 3 years if the Knicks can't?
You need to go one more step with the cbafaq. Check out this link for the "repeat offenders" rule. If a team is over the luxury tax three years in a row, they are subject to an even more painful tax. For every dollar amount teams normally have to pay, repeat offenders must pay an additional dollar. Thus the first $5 mil over the luxury tax threshold is taxed at $2.50 per dollar. Then $2.75, then $3.50...and after $4.75, it increases by $.50 each additional $5 million. There's no end, no cap. It just hurts more and more. What's annoying is that since this thing with Howard started, and now Lin, I have my twitter feed up all the time (and I hate twitter) clicking on every update, reading every last damn article. (My work productivity has dropped off like 10% the last two weeks.) And ALL of the articles provide an inaccurate or (at best) incomplete version of the CBA tax implications. ALL of them. I only read this CBA stuff last night, because so many articles had conflicting information. But the reporters? Ugh. This is their profession. They should, you know, try. At least Feigen doesn't claim to know stuff he doesn't. Anyway, I try to limit myself to one not-too-long ranting paragraph per day. Goodnight.
I did read it. I don't believe they'll qualify as repeat offenders because they weren't offenders last season. They will be repeaters in 2015-2016 though, based on my understanding.
