What is your expectation if Tilman doesn’t pay luxury tax next season?

Tilly and Stone must NOT trade RoCo (i.e. give him away for lesser/cheaper player) or worse, cut RoCo, to avoid tax.

Patrick will not let that happen.

 

Rockets already right at the cap so would need to dump salary first if they wanted to use full MLE without getting hard capped.

 

Not looking good fam.

 

This is not 100% factual ..... I did the math not long ago , its posted in one of the Silas threads and they can actually stay below the apron while using the NT-MLE without any of the above by only carrying 14 players , one player must be on a rookie minimum , another on a 1st year minimum.
They could easily remain under the tax line simply by not using the MLE and doing the same.

Here's that post -

 

Gordon, Covington, and House to Orlando for T.Ross, Issac, and Bama. 2020 2nd rd Pick(#45) Teams Involved : Rockets and Orlando Magic ;;;;;
Not only gives you size you need, and youth but also saves you 6 Million Towards the cap which would help bring in Another player without pushing the thresh hold Luxury Tax. You could possibly get a late 2nd rd pick to make the trade even for Houston. Gordon is the better player to Ross, so i can see Orlando taking him on for shooting purposes. Covington is better player as well to Issac. Better at Defense, and would be upgrade to Orlando system Slightly.
Rockets would get MO Bama a legit 7-0 footer who could come in and start become what Capela did w. Harden, Issac is a up coming rookie with Height 6-11' that's not a big drop off much from Covington but may increase his role here as starter because hes not behind Gordon in Orlando anymore. Ross contract is lesser than Gordon, and hes does a little what Gordon does scoring wise/. Gordon would be a upgrade to the Magic, as well as Covington. But i see Rockets getting better of the deal because there getting positions of need w/ Youth , Height , and Defensive Rebounding. and Saving on the cap that would allow them a little breathing room to spend There MLE, BTE, and Vets without going into far in tax. (6 Million this trade saves them towards the cap)

Anyways this trade does get them out of the luxury tax without dropping to far off talent wise, and gives them what they need, why i brought it up here. Seems like a no brainer to swing the deal.

 

Tax line is 132M and Rockets currently have 131M cap hold.

 

Either they read clutchFans or the time came and went, when National media has picked up the scent of our owner's cheapness.

 

I agree. Trust me I hate Tilman just as much as every person in this city does maybe even more only because I’ve worked for him and he’s a cheap POS that loves to lowball his employees and work them like slaves.

 

'What happened to that guy? '