Let me ask again, does anyone know the projected number the team is trying to be under to avoid setting the repeater tax clock? The team's current salary is $108,230,008 not counting marcus smart at all. A starting salary around 12 mil would obviously take us to about 120 mil.
Edit: these totals do not count Wanamaker either, who for some reason is listed at $0. Not sure what his salary would be?
Luxury Tax Threshold: $123,733,000
Thanks. So can someone explain why many predict that the Celts will definitely be over the luxury tax if we sign Marcus? I found out that Wanamaker would only be making a little over 800k so that should leave about 14.5 mil for marcus this year.
Clearly I am missing something?
Not sure what you are looking at or missing but based on data on Spotrac, the Celtics are at $126,720,019 with Smart at $11,607,143 and Wanamaker at $831,311. That a little less than $3M over the tax line.
Nader is only partially guaranteed. I think they plan to pay the tax. I don't think they will give Morris away just to not pay the tax.
https://www.spotrac.com/nba/boston-celtics/cap/
We'll see what they want to do. They could lock Bird into a contract similar to Ojeleye that is long, but non-guaranteed. This gives Bird a team and gives the Celtics roster flexibility.
If they did that, trading away Morris still gets them under the tax, which is a good place to be for the Celtics as they stare down the repeater tax in coming years.
Ojeleye and Theis offer similar defense and outside shooting. Morris is well-suited to be a 5-7th man, but on this team, he is the 9th. Ojeleye and Theis are better 9th and 10th men.
Morris just doesn't fill a position of need for this team moving forward. I would like to keep him, but it really makes sense to get under the tax by trading him.