Lusty RaRue

End of an era?

If it happens as expected, this will be the last year the lxury tax is implemented.

Utah absolutely cleaned up this season by facilitating deals with teams that wanted to avoid/reduce the tax hit. If there's no tax expected next year, will teams with cap/ending contracts recieve as much as Utah did this year?

Does this mean that having talent will once again be more important than being able to help financially(relative to the past few years)?

I hope so. I've tried (mostly unsuccessfully) to factor $ issues into my thinking and stupid trade proposals because it's necessary to be realistic but I haven't really enjoyed it. It's sad when human capital is considered a bad thing.

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The above post is just my stupid opinion(JMSO). Corrections requested/ comments welcomed.
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''I told Jamal the situation is totally different,'' Paxson said. ''When Jay was selected with the second pick of the draft, all expectations were that he was going to be the starter.
''That's not the case this time around. Kirk's a complimentary player, although I do believe he'll be a starter eventually in this league.''

MightyReds2020

If there's no luxury tax next season, you won't see the Googs + 2 picks for Clark and parts deal but you will still see the Rasheed for parts deal. There's about the only differences I could think of.

Storyteller

I agree. Teams will still covet expiring contracts in order to position themselves to be under the cap for FA acquisitions, but probably won't trade one expiring contract and draft picks for a smaller expiring contract - unless their owner really starts pinching pennies....