Can anyone confirm? Looks to me like we're paying about $1.3mill in luxury tax. The only good news is that the 2 trades reduced the amount we would pay, effectively saving us around $5.2 million. That's cash that might well be put to good use in the future? And I suppose with Ming's $8mill insurance, it's not that big a deal
I guess it wasn't cost-effective to dump Jeffries to Sacramento, as it would probably have cost us $3 million to save $1.3 million, plus Jeffries' remaining salary, plus the league redistribution amount? Maybe the math was a wash. Or maybe Morey was too busy at the deadline working the two other deals, that he didn't have time to worry about a salary dump.
Thankyou - good point. My numbers were wrong anyway - I forgot to take off Ish Smith's salary. So as long as we can pay Jeffries some $900k less than his full amount in a buyout (he'd almost get that much back for signing up with someone for the vets minimum anyway) we're tax-free!
