New salary cap projection

[tazzmaniac]

New salary cap projection 99M.  Yikes. 

Edit:  Per Jay King tweet. 

[max215]

We're going to need to shed a ton of salary for max space now.

[PhoSita]

Getting a max free agent without straight up salary dumping some significant rotation pieces is basically impossible now.

[celticinorlando]

Not good...ALTHOUGH my guess is teams might have known this was coming...have to figure some things out

[jpotter33]

Eh, if the Porzingis stuff is true, a deal for him would more than likely shed us enough salary as it is, figuring we'd be losing the salary for the number three pick AND Crowder, plus others.

[JOMVP]

Amazing how much it has come down to where it was originally supposed to be at. Game changing number really. At the very least, they had to dump Crowder and probably Rozier.

[GetLucky]

By how much does the value of a max contract go down now?

[Roy H.]

By how much does the value of a max contract go down now?

For our targets, they're at 30% of the cap.

So, $29.7 million to start.

[tazzmaniac]

By how much does the value of a max contract go down now?

Depends on which Max: 25%, 30% or 35%.  For Hayward or Griffin at 30%, would go from 30.3M to 29.7M. 

[liam]

Eh, if the Porzingis stuff is true, a deal for him would more than likely shed us enough salary as it is, figuring we'd be losing the salary for the number three pick AND Crowder, plus others.

The Porzingis deal may be necessary in order to sign Hayward!

[GetLucky]

By how much does the value of a max contract go down now?

For our targets, they're at 30% of the cap.

What I'm asking is by how much does this change the "magic number" for the Celtics? For example, if the projected cap was $107 million and is now $99 million, 30% of 8 million is $2.4 million, meaning the "magic number" changed by $5.6 million rather than the full $8 million. I was unaware of initial cap projections, so I'm not sure how dramatically this changes the outlook.

EDIT: TP Roy and Tazz

[tazzmaniac]

By how much does the value of a max contract go down now?

For our targets, they're at 30% of the cap.

What I'm asking is by how much does this change the "magic number" for the Celtics? For example, if the projected cap was $107 million and is now $99 million, 30% of 8 million is $2.4 million, meaning the "magic number" changed by $5.6 million rather than the full $8 million. I was unaware of initial cap projections, so I'm not sure how dramatically this changes the outlook.

EDIT: TP Roy and Tazz

It went from 101M to 99M.  Unfortunately we're so close that every 100K matters. 

[tazzmaniac]

Portland didn't need this from a luxury tax standpoint.  Not sure how much it affects KD resigning with GSW.  Think he was going to be taking 3.8M less than his Max so I assume it would be above 4M now. 

[Kuberski33]

Might this mean that they price they're willing to pay to acquire Porzingis increases?

[celticsclay]

How much of this lower projection is from shortened playoffs?