Cai Chongxin superstitious money can pile up a championship lineup of 100 million IQ tax idle people Nets bottom salary veteran desperately.
After trading and cutting players, the Nets finished second in the league with a salary payout of $175 million this season, behind the Warriors' $179 million. This season's NBA salary cap is $112 million, the luxury tax threshold is $137 million, and the Nets pay more than $110 million in luxury taxes under the labor agreement, and Tsai Chongxin has invested nearly $300 million in the Nets this season, but the Nets have only one chicken feather left.
An NBA team that wants to compete for a championship inevitably has to pay a luxury tax, but a team like the Nets, which pays a huge luxury tax every year but does not see the hope of a championship, can only be done by the Knicks in New York. In fact, the Knicks have learned to be smarter in recent years, earning only $123 million this season and $102 million last season. James Dolan burned countless dollars without creating a championship team, he finally learned to open source and reduce expenditure, and also understood a truth of the NBA: it is difficult to win the championship without burning money, and it is even more impossible to win the championship blindly by burning money with your eyes closed.
In the NBA, burning money is also a science. In this regard, Cai Chongxin has not yet touched the threshold. Tsai Chongxin waved a check to the team's investment eyes without blinking, he is still in the stage of crazy money burning disorderly expansion at any cost, he firmly believes that as long as there is enough money thrown on the table, he can always pile up a winning lineup.
Is this really the case?
In 2019, he signed Durant for $164 million in 4 years, spent $37 million to raise Durant for a year, last season Durant received a salary of $40.11 million to play 35 games, this season Durant 's $42.02 million salary to play 38 games (the Nets still have 17 games left), even if the rest of the season Durant played all of the games only played 55 games. In three seasons, Durant received $120 million from Tsai chongxin and played a total of 93 games, counting the 12 games in last year's playoffs, Durant also played only 105 games for the Nets, with an average salary of $1.14 million per game.
Also taking more money and working less is Owen. Irving deducted the salary of not playing at home this season, and also received $82.98 million from Cai Chongxin in three seasons, playing only 90 games for the Nets in total, playing all 7 away games, plus 9 games in last year's playoffs, Irving played only 106 games for the Nets in three years, with an average salary of $783,000 per game.
It's worth noting that Harden played a total of 80 games when the Nets played only half a season in two years, but Tsai Chongxin and his management sold the person with the highest attendance in exchange for another Ben Simmons, who didn't know when to play this season, and continued to spend money to support idlers.
Cai Chongxin burned more than that.
Dragic's salary on the book is only 730,000, but Jevon Carter, who laid off a two-year guarantee contract to sign him, this time the salary plus luxury tax is more than $10 million, and he will have to pay the Nets a $4 million salary cap next season. The Nets have been making $10 million this season, Joe Harris, who has been reimbursed for a single bone spur season, is paid $17.36 million, and the Cavaliers have been trying to trade with the Nets before the injury was rejected.
The Nets' players' salaries and luxury taxes this season add up to about $300 million, and boss Cai, who keeps burning money, looks back and looks back and the nets are playing hard with veterans Aldridge and Patty Mills on a middle-class contract, as well as a group of newcomers waiting to earn big contracts.
After Harden ran away, what was left for the Nets and Boss Cai was a chicken feather. To put it bluntly, Tsai Chongxin's 110 million luxury tax to the NBA this season is undoubtedly another IQ tax.
