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Rhylan · 04-10-2003, 10:42 PM

I'll say it again, and I'll keep saying it until people (including Cuban) stop insisting otherwise:

The logic that adding a $4.5m player to a team over the Luxury Tax threshhold should be worth $9m to his team to be "worth-it" is totally flawed.

That player is not the sole reason your team is paying the Luxury Tax, so why should his production have to shoulder a disproportionate load of it? Raef is making $7m this year, and we were over the LT threshhold when we signed him, but Mark didn't run around saying "This is a bargain because Raef is going to give us more than $14m worth of production."

We are over the Luxury Tax because we have three max-level players, Raef making too much, TAW making too much, and Nash, Esch and Bradley both being paid pretty handsomely (just under $6m, $4m and $3m respectively). Each player should be expected, as a part of having the privilege of playing for an owner who is willing to pay them so well, to show his worth plus a "portion" of the Luxury Tax proportionate to his share of the team's base salary number.

PERIOD.

04-10-2003, 10:42 PM	#59
Rhylan Minister of Soul Join Date: May 2001 Location: on the Mothership Posts: 4,893	I'll say it again, and I'll keep saying it until people (including Cuban) stop insisting otherwise: The logic that adding a $4.5m player to a team over the Luxury Tax threshhold should be worth $9m to his team to be "worth-it" is totally flawed. That player is not the sole reason your team is paying the Luxury Tax, so why should his production have to shoulder a disproportionate load of it? Raef is making $7m this year, and we were over the LT threshhold when we signed him, but Mark didn't run around saying "This is a bargain because Raef is going to give us more than $14m worth of production." We are over the Luxury Tax because we have three max-level players, Raef making too much, TAW making too much, and Nash, Esch and Bradley both being paid pretty handsomely (just under $6m, $4m and $3m respectively). Each player should be expected, as a part of having the privilege of playing for an owner who is willing to pay them so well, to show his worth plus a "portion" of the Luxury Tax proportionate to his share of the team's base salary number. PERIOD.