It’s ok - we’ll grow on you, Dame. He is going to want Miami until he’s convinced it’s not viable. At that point, I bet the consideration set grows. May still not include Boston but he doesn’t get to control that part. We’ll get more clarity soon due to the Jaylen extension.
Not directing this just at you but I wish people would stop saying this. Every state in the nation has large budgets that have to be paid from some source, whether it's income tax or property tax or sales tax. Yes, southern states probably have fewer things to pay for (weather causes a lot of expenses) but at the end of the day, according to this article - https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494 - the difference between MA's total tax burden (#20 highest) and FL (#46 highest) is 2.15%.
Getting Dame without giving up Jaylen is insane. I’m not sure how you’d even get a team with two 30-point scorers and two 20-point scorers to even work. I kind of want it to happen just to see NBA fans’ heads explode, but the Celts would probably be a better team if they traded Jaylen and hung onto more role players.
Clicked on the link and to say it is not clear to me what income they are basing this tax burden on. Are they using the NBA threshold of person making 40+ million a year and hitting the extra millionaire tax, or hitting the 14% income tax rate in California,. that I am quite sure that chart was not
Not to mention capital gains taxes (none in FL, 5%/12% in MA). That chart might represent the average tax burden but is in no way scaled to what a $50mn+ athlete will pay.
Here's some more information I believe: https://taxfoundation.org/tax-burden-by-state-2022/.
Exactly. High taxes? Their accountants handle that. It’s cold and everything closes early? That actually affects their day to day lives.
Cold tea in Chinatown and the Glass Slipper is not enough of a draw?
The 1980s Lakers didn't technically have four 20-point scorers, only because there's only one ball to go around. But they absolutely had four guys capable of being 20+ (a couple even 30+ scorers) a night.
Follow up to that:
You know what's the best part? Besides DiCaprio who's 48, Tom Brady is.... 45.
I think they're going straight minimums, don't think anyone out there worth being hard-capped for.
I would guess if Pat Bev was coming in, they would've had Pritchard going out somewhere.
Probably someone wasn't counting the empty roster holds/cap holds for Kabengele, Davison and Blake.
Feels like they need to add a defensive wing; if they can do that on vet min, would like to keep both shooters. Hard to know what the market looks like for the guys left—-especially someone with relationships like Javonte. Plenty of similar (or better) players already signed vet mins, and it is a title contender, so we’ll see what they can do.
I think they have a greater need to add a defensive guard.
Javonte is more guard than wing in terms of defender.
I agree, though they may have more hope for Brogdon defensively than we do. Many of the decent defensive wings are credible 1-3, that’s part of why I see that as a need. I do think it’s a smaller wing that is the bigger need, in part for this reason. Hopefully Tatum can get Javonte to sign up!
Or you just move Hauser to the 7th man and try to outscore your opponents.
Yeah, I think everyone might just slide up a spot, really depends on (assuming not big trade) what they do with what I assume is one more vet addition. Honestly if it's Javonte Green on the minimum I think he slots right into the White spot, doesn't give you everything, but he's a potentially elite defender with a decent enough low volume 3pt shot. I think he'll wait a while because honestly he should get more than the minimum, but question is whether all the money dries up among good teams and he has to decide whether to sign with a contender on the minimum or a lesser team for a bit more.
he'd work or maybe another Bull's Guard?
I've done both. If I had to guess this is at the top of the list. The difference in quality of life from Nov-March is pretty large.
I think it’s reasonable to assume he’s not getting it until Dame is moved, to us or otherwise.
I think a couple things are worth adding here, even though I do agree with your final point. The Heat have already swapped out some role players - I think basically Vincent/Strus for Richardson/Bryant. Not sure how that shakes out for them. But even if that's basically a wash, if they do get Dame they are losing other role players, right? Not that they wouldn't be better, but they'd no doubt be sacrificing depth and their two best players will be 33/34 next season. On Celtics side, even if they nothing significant the glass half full side is that the Jays duo are just at the start of their primes, and both have room to get better.
I generally think of it more as.. we upgraded Horford, which slides Horford into Grant's role, and Horford (even at his age) is MUCH better than Grant.
Good point.
I think it was mostly realizing that Tatum needed help. He isn't elite enough (top 10, not top 5 player) to be reliably great all of the time, so needed another player to help with spacing and force teams to guard other players, especially down the stretch. The idea with landing KP is that he makes Brown and Tatum better; that can't be said as much for Marcus, and it certainly can't be said for Grant.
Listen to his own comments - he thinks he's keeping more. Not making a political comment, but the idea that local/state/federal tax considerations don't weigh into business decisions on a daily basis for many people, be they pro athletes or investment bankers, is inaccurate.
Some people are convinced KP will be chronically injured or just plain "soft" in the playoffs. It's a narrative / fan bias not going away for those people until proven otherwise.
