re: Shinn>The Bensons

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Not the true cap....the LUXURY Tax is the true cap.

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Ok, you just need to stop. You came out with some half assed rant based on misinformed assumptions, kind of one of the reasons people use this board, but rather than having an actual discussion about how the Benson empire could be running the team better, you just double down on your original incorrect assumptions.

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We are 19th in payroll in the NBA.

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Yeah, because we lost a star player to injury and had to reshuffle. That wasn't part of the plan. You have conveniently left out the fact that last year, when they did have Boogie on the payroll, the Pels were 6th. LINK /

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The lip service about spending for contender is bullshite.

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Maybe, maybe not, we won't know until it happens. But history shows small market teams will go into the tax for near contenders or better. The Spurs, and Grizzlies have done it. Even OKC which broke up a contender because they didn't think they could afford it has regularly been a tax team. There's no reason to think the Pels wouldn't follow in their path if they managed to put together a team that was more than a playoff bubble team. Paying the tax or not is about league economics, not cheap owners being cheap.

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The Bensons won’t go into the tax. It will cost the franchise.

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You are just stating what you want to be true. They essentially traded 2 1sts for Cousins. You don't do that for a rental. If Boogie hadn't gotten injured there would have been no practical way to avoid the tax long term. They probably would have become a tax team this year and definitely would have become a tax team when AD got his SuperMax the following year. Why trade 2 1sts for Boogie to help keep AD around to get the SuperMax if you didn't plan on going into the tax?