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Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky
Cheapskate?
Signing the guard to a $30M contract would have cost the Mavericks a total of $130M in salary/tax in one season for Brunson alone.
Cuban is a billionaire, but that tax rate is absurd. The tax alone for Brunson would match the salary of every other player combined and the repeat tax just keeps wrecking us and would prevent us from retaining Wood if he works out.
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Which his why the Mavs need to dump salary regardless, and there is a rumor that we are in talks with the Pistons to absorb one of our contracts. Source on twitter seemed a bit dubious, but there it is.