As an intellectual exercise let's say we paid everyone, which we can because they are all our players we have Bird rights to. Blew through the salary cap, the luxury tax, and the 2nd apron. Say we paid JT his 5 year supermax, matched an offer for $50m a year for 4 years for Derrick, paid Sam $10m and paid Al $5m, and everyone on the roster vet min. Say we got rid of Svi, JD and Drew Peterson. Our hope would be that everyone keeps performing.
So we would have 14 players on the roster before signing a couple of two-ways as bench fodder, this roster would cost us $268m (plus $4m in cap holds for Blake and Kabengele). We would be $113m over the salary cap, $84m over the luxury tax so based on my calculation, using standard luxury tax rate starting at $1.25 for the first $6m we are over the tax, increasing by 50c for every $6m we are over, topping off at $8.25 for the last $6m of our $84m, we would pay a total of $414m in tax in 2025-26. And this is using standard tax rates...the repeater tax rates are higher. So our roster would cost Wyc $682m. (Celtics2021 and Jambr and other CBA experts are welcome to see if I did the calculations right, based on being $84m over the tax and using a tax bracket of $6m and the tax rates based on the CBA at
https://nbpa.com/cba page 184).
Let's assume we did it. We would then be locked in to this team for at least a few years, since we can only trade like for like and can't aggregate, and the shortest major contract would be KP's which would run to 2026-27. How long would this be sustainable? Would Wyc be ok with this?