The 2020-2021 season's NBA curtain will officially kick off on the 23rd of this month, and today is only 20 days away from the opening of the new season. After the opening of the free market on November 21, the 30 NBA teams started recruiting, trading, and signing contracts. More than ten days have passed. The NBA teams have basically built their own lineups for the new season. , The salary situation of each team has also surfaced.
had a salary cap of US$109.1 million in the new season reached by NBA officials and the players union, a luxury tax threshold of US$132.6 million, and a hard salary cap of US$138.9 million this season. As the two favorites of the Western Conference championships, the Los Angeles duo Lakers and the Clippers have recruited teams to reinforce their teams, and they are only left with about $2.6 million and $1 million in salary cap space, respectively.
Among the 30 teams, under the current signed lineup, there are currently 6 teams whose total salary exceeds the luxury tax threshold ($132.6 million), namely the Warriors (173 million) and the Nets (1.56). 100 million), 76ers (142 million), Clippers (141 million), Rockets (134 million) and Jazz (133 million). If these 6 teams play a full season with their current personnel lineup, then they have to pay The luxury taxes are 140 million, 60 million, 16.25 million, 14 million, 3 million and 1.5 million respectively.
Although the six teams need to pay luxury tax according to the current salary, this does not represent the final result. Because in accordance with the labor agreement, the league will determine whether the team should pay taxes based on the total salary of each team in the last regular season of each season. The season has not yet started. There are still six teams. A lot of time for transactions or layoffs for tax cuts or tax avoidance.
Although each team still has time and space to continue to operate, it is inevitable for the Warriors and Nets to pay a huge luxury tax next season, and the 76ers and Clippers are both in the hard salary cap. On the edge, it exceeds the luxury tax threshold by about 9 million yuan, and there is still room for operation at the end of the season to reduce the total salary below the luxury tax threshold. The Rockets and Jazz surpassed this point, which is a little insignificant. Just do it in the second half of the season and you can successfully avoid taxes.
Due to the impact of the epidemic, the salary cap and luxury tax line for next season will remain unchanged. This makes the three Warriors who have signed the top-paid players Curry, Thompson and Wiggins have contract years and more salaries. The four-year $100 million contract signed by Green last summer also came into effect this year. The total salary of the four people is as high as $130.16 million, which is only more than 2 million behind the luxury tax line. Coupled with various special deal signings, the total salary of the Warriors is bound to explode, and it is too difficult to reduce the luxury tax. The four main players will die, and most of the salaries of other role players can only be small. Little trouble, unless the Warriors dare to make a big deal in the middle of the season, trading Green and Wiggins will have the possibility of significantly reducing the luxury tax.
The situation of the Nets is similar to that of the Warriors, but fortunately they only have two big men with 30 million salaries, Irving and Durant, but there are also many players with an annual salary of 10 million, Dinwiddie, Jordan, and Johari. The salaries of S, Prince, and Le Ville are all over 10 million, and the total salary has naturally gone up. Now, if you want to reduce the luxury tax, you can only do some work among these five!
The 76ers are also in big trouble. Simmons' maximum salary will come into effect next season, and the team's enthusiasm for signing Harris and Horford's two-billion-yuan contract last summer is a big hole for the 76ers. Fortunately, Horford has traded the Thunder, which is not short of cap space, in exchange for Danny Green, which is a bit lighter. And Green will be the X factor of whether the 76ers can get rid of the luxury tax. Because his last season's $15.36 million contract is very operational, once he does not play well, the 76ers are likely to choose to get rid of the burden and successfully avoid taxes. Z1z
The Clippers now have a salary exceeding the hard salary cap. If you want to sign the favorite Batum, you need to lay off Noah. The salary of the other major players is basically unable to move. As a championship team, the Clippers should not do much for the luxury tax of around 10 million yuan.
And the Rockets and Jazz, two teams that are already good at budgeting, are not super-superior and have a lot of room to operate.There is a high probability that the luxury tax will not be paid at the end of the season.
and the defending champion Lakers are likely to join the luxury tax camp, because Anthony Davis has not signed yet, so the maximum salary can't get away. And with 2.6 million left in the hard salary cap space, they will definitely be reinforced in the middle and late seasons, and they will end up paying a luxury tax of about 10 million like the city's archenemy Clippers.
