Hoopsworld: Updated salary cap situation

[rondoallaturca]

http://www.hoopsworld.com/boston-celtics-team-salary

Hoopsworld has updated their Celtics salary page reflecting the Nets deal. As it stands, our guaranteed total is about $68.3M. We're probably not bringing back White, Joseph, or Wilcox, and Randolph isn't even a lock. However, factoring in Randolph's non-guaranteed as well as Olynyk's starting salary, we'll bit sitting at just a little bit over $71M.

The projected luxury tax is $71.6M, so it looks like the C's are just able to scrape under that threshold by a few hundreds of thousands. Of course, it would still be nice to balance out the roster better, and it's always good to shed unwanted salaries as a rebuilding team, but as it stands Boston won't have to worry about making further moves to avoid the luxury tax and/or potential repeater offenses.

[Fan from VT]

Priority #1 is avoiding the luxury tax. If we are going to be building toward an eventual contender, we want to keep that contender together, and not be in "repeater" territory in year 1 or 2 of a good team.

[hwangjini_1]

randoph, white, and joseph combine for almost $3,000,000 in non-guaranteed salary. i can't see more than one, if any, of them making the team right now.

next, year a rough and crude accounting says that if they jettison bogans and crawford, their payroll would be around $38,000,000. but by the same token, avery's due for a new contract and so is rondo.

it will be a tough choice on what to do on rondo.

this year ainge will pinch those thousand dollar bills and try to catapult salaries. meaning forget free agents.

[Celtics4ever]

Yeah, I do not seeing us signing any body of worth.   I do see Ainge trying to use the trade exception but I could be wrong there, who knows.