[Wojnarowski] Adding Hauser’s extension to the Celtics’ 2025-2026 payroll elevates it to a projected $225 million with an additional $210 million luxury tax penalty — highest in league and over the second-apron for a second consecutive year.
by Goosedukee
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can’t let us be #1 in anything fuck this
Meh, Money is Money, but Championships are everything…
Brad said “what’s wrong with aprons? I cook in em”
The second apron is no match for Bradley Kent Stevens
Gotta pay to play. Winning championships skyrockets your franchises value anyway so gotta do what you gotta do.
They’re gonna have to not suck in 2032, 2033, 2034, etc because they’ll be picking last every year.
How to build a team the Celtics way:
Find a bunch of talented players who like to play in your town
Give them money
I already know other teams rubbing their hands like birdman to pick off our players when we gotta shed salary
1 more yr together then someone will probably have to get traded
New owner better be Elon Bezos von Zuckerberg or something.
It’s our turn with the infinite money printer
Brad Stevens can squeeze orange juice out of a lemon.
We gettin’ that Amica insurance money now from the jersey ads. Vistaprint was too broke ass.
Shout out the Celtics fan who told me the front office was successfully managing the cap
the second apron signed a rookie max deal
Ah yes…The true spirit of the salary cap is that the 4-5 biggest markets don’t operate by the same rules as everyone else. Meanwhile OKC will have to trade away Chet or Williams in 3 years.
The second apron is only a problem if you aren’t a championship caliber team and you’re going to rebuild soon. It’s false that the second apron prevents you from keeping your players. The Celtics have a firm title window, they’re re-signing everybody, and their ownership will pay for it because they’re set to make tons of money making deep playoff runs anyway. I don’t the problem with that system.
Still wish they didn’t punish well built teams the same way as bought teams
It’ll be interesting seeing how championship teams compare from going over the second apron to keep their championship roster to teams like the nuggets who have decided not to make the sacrifice to keep core pieces of their championship team on the roster.
Their tax is almost as much as Grizzlies total revenue in 2023 (258m).
How can poor franchises compete with this?
What happens if they can’t sell the team
God I hope the Celtics are absolutely shit the next few years. No one veer gives them shit for having an expensive ass team, it’s like an afterthought on hating on them
This is a great strategy. You keep the whole team together for 3-4 years as that’s easy to bank on. The team also seems to be taking chance on revenue jump and the salary to keep them slightly flexible in the future.
Someone with knowledge explain to me why teams like the Nuggets lose players like KCP because they are scared of the 2nd apron and other teams don’t give a shit? Is it owners simply being cheap?
As a Sixers fan this type of extension thrills me. Please do more just like this, Boston.
People underestimate what it does for team culture when everyone is paid and taken care of. Plus they’ve won and gotten that monkey off their back as well.
They’re gonna be playing super free basketball and probably wreck the league next year.
What does all this apron shit mean
I hope the owners can’t find a buyer for the team. If no one buys, let them eat the tax they think they’re getting out of.
Yall remember when whoever the fuck is the gm of the rams got a mug that said “ fuck them picks “? Someone get Brad an apron that says “this is my third apron”
Is there a way to measure how much a team goes over the salary cap vs how much extra revenue they make to compensate? Like you pay 1m in tax but your actions resulted in an extra 3m of extra merchandise sales or something like that? Does that make sense on the concept. Of you have to spend money to make money?
What are the chances the Celtics repeat?
That’s what a championship costs
Wtf are the Celtics doing lmao