Warriors spent more than $350 million last season, along with $184 million in salary and $170 million in luxury tax. At the recent meeting, some management hoped that the alliance would balance the matter.
ESPN reporter Zach Lowe believes that this statement is unreasonable because most of the Warriors players are trained by themselves. In response to the outside world's doubts that the Warriors' championship was piled up with "money", Lowe expressed doubts: "What should the Warriors do? Let Green and Thompson leave? Don't give Curry a super maximum salary contract?" Lowe also mentioned that the Warriors re-signed players they selected and trained should be a favorite thing for all management teams. Not only does it share the dividends brought by the luxury tax, but it also provides ideas for the team's development.
Salary expert Bobby Marks added that the Warriors, including Jordan Poole, had eight players selected by themselves, and the luxury tax collected by the Warriors can earn an average of $11 million for non-luxury tax teams, a record high.
In response to the management team complaining that the Warriors spent money to build a team, Max said: "If I were the president of the league, I would say to them directly: 'You have to do a better job in drafting and training.'" The issue of giant teams spending a lot of money to recruit soldiers and small market teams cannot retain stars certainly needs to be taken seriously, but the Warriors who have cultivated excellent stars themselves should not be punished for this.
2022-23 season, "Splash Brothers" will all enter the top 10 of the league's salary list, Curry ranked first with $48 million, and Thompson ranked 10th with $40.6 million. Then Wiggins, ranked 26th with $33.6 million, and Green ranked 46th with $25.8 million. The Warriors' total salary is expected to exceed $209 million next season.
