The Boston Celtics face a potentially significant increase in their luxury tax bill in future seasons under the NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), especially if they give Jaylen Brown a supermax contract extension that will be worth nearly $300 million over the next five seasons.
To accommodate Brown’s supermax, the team may need to trade away players with mid-level salaries and downgrade the roster in the short term given the ball club’s ownership group’s willingness to pay a high tax bill is uncertain on the scale going into the so-called “supertax” or second apron by bringing back the team as it was last season.
There are other paths to a contending team that strike a balance between taking steps back or going hard into the tax available also.
Take a look at the clip embedded above to hear what the hosts of the CLNS Media “First to the Floor” podcast has to say about the range of options available to the team to build a contender for 2023-24.
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