2017 NBA OFFSEASON

yep

don't see why they'd balk at paying the tax tho, they have to be making so much money from merch and TV. plus they can legally go over the cap to sign steph, right?

iirc the luxury tax is truly insane if you pay it for more than one season

ya

if anyone can pay it is the bay area billionaires right

most franchise owners are loathe to pay hundreds of millions of extra money into their teams

yeah i mean even if youre a bay area billionaire its still a lot of money

mickey arison is worth $9 billion and balked at paying like $20 something million in extra tax to keep mike miller around even tho they knew it was going to deeply annoy lebron

the warriors are a different case but if we're talking like $75-$100 million in tax money or something then they're basically just accepting a loss on the team for several years and i don't think that's tenable

its official the warriors are cooked

the insane tax bill is when u go over the line 3 out of 4 years, the warriors went over the line this year for the first time so theyre in pretty good shape on that front https://www.statista.com/statistics/262004/nba-teams-by-luxury-tax-payments

buut this article says they cld still be paying $100m in tax next year even without the repeater tax https://sports.yahoo.com/news/warriors-could-eclipse-260-million-165703400.html

oh wait that chart i posted only goes up to last year so the warriors paid the tax last year but just got under it this year

they will def be over next year so then in 2018-19 is when theyll be facing paying the dreaded repeater tax which basically doubles their tax bill, they cld bite the bullet and pay a huge tax next year then make whatever trades they need to in two years i guess but itd be a pretty monumental job, kinda think they might be looking at moving one of their dudes this offseason

klay def seems like the odd man out and they cld prob get a p good haul for him

klay for bradley and rozier

wld only save them ~$6m

klay is integral to their style of play but ultimately he's obviously the most dispensable of the three with the most theoretically replaceable skillset

they should basically spend all their draft capital this year trying to find a klay clone imo

klone

klay for brogdon

that's a great trade

klay for gary harris, who other than the warriors says no

Guys they're not reading klay this offseason

Trading.

if they win this year they'll keep that core four together at least one more year i agree

Lacob already said he's willing to pay whatever to keep the team together.

that sounds nice but when he has to start writing $100 million checks we'll see

again don't they like make so much money on marketing/ticket sales/TV deals? i have to believe that even 100m can't be an insurmountable sum

but yeah writing 100m checks can't be fun

dont tickets cost roughly 10m per seat at oracle

Yes and the prices gonna be skyrocketing w the new arena too.

theyre trading him sry weve decided

i've decided to acquire klay's contract

lagoon otm, if you have to trade dray or klay you should probably trade klay because he's not as good

actually its because no one wants dray

the nuggets want dray imo

klay is better than just a 3 and D guy but the other things he does have severely diminishing returns on a team that already has steph and kd

he kinda is just a 3 n D guy, hes the best 3 n D guy, but his scoring ability is underutilized as a 3rd option

http://www.basketballtradingcardsforsale.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/klay-thompson-now-a-boston-celtic.jpg

otm

seems to me dray wld just be average on any other team

on any other team his teammates wld prob kill him since theyre not forgiving christians

draymond's defense would be elite on any team in the NBA, his appeal as a playmaker would be more dependent on the players around him & the style of play

this says the warriors had an operating income of $74 million as of feb 17 https://www.forbes.com/teams/golden-state-warriors/

so it's not like they can just eat hundreds of millions of dollars in luxury tax payments

i cld see them doing it next year but after that they have to blow it up

hard to blow it up 1 year after they have to sign a bunch of players. its now or in several years

well they have to sign kd and steph no matter what then fill then fill the roster out w scrubs/discounts anyway so i think trading klay and or dray is kinda the same this year or next

didn't iggy say they have all this shit figured out already

also, look, dray is not going anywhere unless he somehow falls off a cliff

didn't iggy say they have all this shit figured out already

if the dubs front office doesn't already have a plan, they aren't earning their pay. whether the plan keeps steph, kd, dray & klay together is the real question.