In fact, these 57 years are a little exaggerated, because the concept of luxury tax was first proposed in NBA1998 when it was shut down, and then the official implementation of the luxury tax was already in 2002, and this year happened to be the day when mainland player Yao Ming entered the NBA, and in the first season of the implementation of the luxury tax, 16 teams in the entire league paid this tax, of which the Portland Trail Blazers 52 million were far ahead, and the NBA salary cap was only $40.2 million that year.
In the case of Yao Ming's increasing popularity of joining the Rockets, the assets of Rocket owner Alexander have rushed from the bottom of the league to the top ten in the league, but the investment received by the Rockets team is weak and pitiful, not to mention that the total luxury tax of the Warriors has exceeded 600 million US dollars so far, even the most "poor" in the league 's Spurs owners have paid 17.5 million, while the former Alexander of the Rockets only paid 5.3 million, and the second Fertitta has kept saying that he is not afraid to spend money, but so far it has not even been as good as Alexander, so let's take a look!
Fertitta is not even as good as Alexander
Rockets pay taxes for the first time: $800,000 in luxury tax in 2011 for the reason: No. 9 in the West did not make the playoffs!
Yao Ming played for the Rockets for a total of nine seasons, of which only the last year the Rockets paid $800,000 in luxury tax, and in the summer of 2010, the Rockets were also considered heavy-handed, when the team doctor told the team that Yao Ming could return to play before Christmas in the new season, so this summer the Rockets kept Scola for 5 years and 47 million, signed Brad Miller for 3 years and 15 million for 3 years, plus Battier and Jeffries high contracts, the Rockets' luxury tax in the 10-11 season once reached $12 million.
Originally, Yao Ming's original comeback plan was around Christmas, but for various reasons, Yao Ming began to travel with the team in the first game of the new season, although the time of each game was limited to 25 minutes, but after only five games, Yao Ming suffered a stress fracture again and was reimbursed for the season, so that the layout of the Rockets throughout the summer was completely in vain, so the Rockets sent Brooks, Ismael, Battier and others, including Rockets captain Battier who only averaged 1.2 points and 1.7 rebounds per game in exchange for rookie Thabit, all of these operations were to reduce the luxury tax, and eventually the Rockets luxury tax was reduced from 12 million to $800,000, and if Morey was given some more time, maybe the 800,000 could have been avoided.
Alexander is the real villain who tells you in advance that it will cost money, while Fertitta is a hypocrite
Rockets pay taxes for the second time: $4.5 million in luxury tax in 2016, final result: first round of the playoffs!
After reaching the Western Conference Finals in 15, the Rockets should take advantage of the victory to chase down the recruit again, and as a result, the Rockets management once again played a stingy instinct, let's take a look at the deal on February 22, 16, when Motai Yunas had grown into a high-quality backup behind Howard, and Marcus Thornton averaged 10 points per game and also had the title of "Suo Thigh", as a result, the Rockets traded Motai Yunas and Thorton in exchange for only three draft picks with top-10 protection through a three-way trade, and this kind of abandonment of instant combat power is obviously to avoid the luxury tax.
The result came unexpectedly, according to the regulations, all players involved in the trade must complete a physical examination within 72 hours, and the results given by Motai Yunas when the Pistons participated in the physical examination were not optimistic, and then the Rockets and Pistons applied to the league again for an additional 24 hours to continue to evaluate Motai's injury, at that time the Pistons specially invited experts to examine, although the results of the review improved, but the Pistons still decided to return, and finally Motai Yunas and Thorton returned to the Rockets, and Morey's tax avoidance operation also failed.
Motel and Howard's style is one soft and one rigid
The Rockets' most disgusting tax avoidance: trading Capela in the 19-20 season!
First of all, let's mention the 18-19 season, when the rookie owner Fertitta released a bold statement that even more luxury tax would be done in order to win the championship, but as soon as this sentence was said, the Rockets management let Ariza and Bamot go, but even so, the total salary of the Rockets before the start of the season still exceeded the luxury tax line, and then the disgusting things for Rockets fans came, first of all, trading Anderson to save $2.58 million, cutting Anthony and McCarvey in cash payment to save 2.6 million and 1.1 million, The transaction of Onuaku saved 3.8 million, and the transaction saved nearly 4 million in exchange for Shambaugh, and every operation of the rocket achieved the purpose of saving money, which can be described as a model of open source and cost reduction!
Just promised not to trade, but a week later, Paul was replaced by Wei Shao
The next is the 19-20 season, before the start of the season the Rockets expect a luxury tax of $14.45 million, Rockets fans have speculated, is Fertitta finally woken up? As a result, in the middle of the season, the Rockets actually packaged Capela, Nene and Gerald Green in exchange for Covington and Jordan Bell through a four-way trade, and then the Rockets found that the salary was still high and gave Jordan Bell to the Grizzlies for free.
This lineup is vulnerable to the Lakers in the playoffs
Unwitting fans accepted the Rockets' deception, that is, the Rockets gave up Harden's best interior and exterior blocking for the space Westbrook needed, and experienced fans can see at a glance that the tallest Covington of the Rockets after the trade is only 2.01 meters, this kind of deformed lineup does not even have a serious center, and the management led by Fertitta and Morey doesn't even want to face in order to save money and avoid taxes!