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Our main issue is the hard cap, not the tax. You can go over the tax during the year and not have to pay as long as you're under at the end of the season. The hard cap is different, you can't exceed it ever...for us the hard cap is slightly under the tax number iirc, so we can't go over the tax anyway even if we wanted to.
There's a 4 million 'apron' between the luxury tax line and the hard cap line. And even then the hard cap needs to be triggered. I'm not entirely sure what these triggers are though. The whole concept of the apron seems superfluous to me, but I didn't write the CBA.
What I take out of it is that going into luxury tax does not automatically equal being hard capped
We are just under the luxury tax amount, which means we are at least 4mil away from being hard capped
I think Jrue's incentives might be part of what might trigger the hard cap for us. I read that you have to assume they will all be met when calculating remaining cap space. Because you never hear anyone say we have ~4 mil in room, only a couple hundred thousand.
Harder to suss out than woman, the NBA CBA is
Last edited by AusPel; 11-09-2017 at 10:58 AM.
The hard cap is pretty stupid and unfair. Cleveland and Golden State both spent almost $15M more than us yet we're the ones hard capped.
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