2012 offseason FA/trade rumor thread Options

[Balta1701-B]

Start off with this one. Sam Smith saying the Celtics will make a run at Asik.

[2nd_city_saint78...]

JR absolutely havs the money to go over the luxury tax line, but if you go over that line, it costs you like $10 million+ per season, so it's a major profitability hit.

Oh wow, didn't know it was going to be that big of a hit...

I think Evans turns into a real good player, kids only 22 years old and he's still working with the "shot doc" all offseason apparently...

Here's a link to this shot doc guy There's a video of him working with Evans on the front page.

http://keithshotdocveney.com/index.php/tra...oc/pro-training

He's worked with Dirk, Peirce, Caron Butler, and Ben Gordon amung others..

[Balta1701-B]

Oh wow, didn't know it was going to be that big of a hit...

If you go over the Luxury tax line, the first season you pay something like $1.5 for every dollar over the line, then it gets harsher with time, becomes $2 the next year, somemthing like that.

So if you go over the luxury tax line by $2 million you take a $1-2 million hit. If you go over by $5 million, pretty quickly it's a $5 million hit. The Heat are over the tax line by like $7 million right now.

The other part though...if you're over the tax line, you also lose revenue from the other teams over the tax. If you're over the tax line, you pay money out, you do not receive money, and so the penalty for going $1 over the luxury tax line is close to $4 million.