Zanimljivost vezana za PG13. Nasao sam na jednom americkom forumu.Pa koga zanima ....
Currently OKC has 8 fully guaranteed contracts for next season. Russell Westbrook, Steven Adams, Andre Roberson, Alex Abrines, Patrick Patterson, Kyle Singler, Terrance Ferguson, and Dakari Johnson. These 8 contracts amount to over $92.2 million of cap space on a projected $101 million salary cap.
Carmelo Anthony has a 27.9 million player option for next season that he absolutely will exercise because at 34 years old and the shortage of cap space available among the league this upcoming free agency, he really has no hope of another team coming close to matching that amount. So that brings OKC's payroll to $120.1 million. With the luxury tax line projected at $123 million, OKC is already going to almost certainly be a luxury team and we haven't even gotten to Paul George yet.
Paul George has a player option of $20.7 million but stands to earn at max contract starting at $30.3 million as a free agent so there's really no chance that he doesn't opt out. Unlike Carmelo, George at 28 years old will have teams lining up to pay him. So if we add George's inevitable max contract to OKC's salary, that brings them to a whopping $150.4 million. It's a lot, but if you really believe you have a championship-caliber roster, it might be worth it.
However, because of being so far over the luxury tax, OKC will have to pay additional taxes. Carrying a $150.4 million salary roster would cost them an extra $74.2 million in luxury taxes bringing their total roster cost next year to over $224.6 million!
But wait! It actually somehow gets worse. If OKC is a luxury tax team next year, they will have been one for 4 of the last 5 years and will be subject to the dreaded repeater tax. Instead of $74.2 million, OKC would be required to pay $101.6 million in luxury taxes bringing their final total roster cost to over
$252.1 million which is as much of an utterly preposterous amount to spend on one season's roster as it sounds.
To put this into perspective, earlier this year Forbes valued the entire Oklahoma City Thunder organization at just over 1 billion. If anyone out there seriously believes that legendary cheapskate owner, Clayton Bennett, is about to spend 1/4th his entire team's market value on one single year's roster salary, you're out of your freaking mind.
"Hold up ToastedMuffins! Why can't OKC just shed some salary at the deadline this January and reduce that luxury tax hit?" Unfortunately for the Thunder the only sizable contract aside from their "big three" is Steven Adams at 22.4 million. The problem with trading Adams is that the Thunder would need to take back almost no salary and there are no large expiring contracts on the market. Furthermore, OKC doesn't even have any 1st round draft picks they can trade prior to the year 2022 due to the Ted Stepien rule to facilitate such a trade.
"But wait! Can't OKC just trade Carmelo and free themselves up to keep just Paul George instead?" Not so fast. Carmelo's no-trade clause is still in effect. The Thunder can't trade him without his consent and any team that Carmelo would consent to (Portland, Cleveland, Houston) would still need and expect to send back long-term salary in return.
[uredio blackmamba24 - 13. studenog 2017. u 15:11]