I'd hate to lose Rondo, but Danny will trade him in a heartbeat. He's been getting the Ray Allen treatment for pretty much his entire career, which is disgusting, imo, but if he's gone , why not do something like this? - http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=od8lx8w
Sure, on the surface it doesn't make sense, but if Smart is our point guard moving forward, at least we'd be able to free up an ass-load of cap room.
Your trade idea does not increase the Celtics cap room compared to just keeping all those players and letting them expire. The Celtics also take in way more salary than they give up, putting the team into the luxury tax.
I thought that that was how a team made more cap room, though, by having expiring contracts coming off the books, or has something changed? I also don't understand the whole luxury tax thing. How much money are the owners already putting into the team? These guys are billionaires and millionaires many times over, so what's a few million more to them? Sorry, but I have no sympathy for these 'people.' How can you bankroll an $80 million team and then complain about having to pay a luxury tax? Businesses and corporations get nothing but tax breaks and kickbacks everywhere, only to suck every last ounce of marrow out of such a deal before leaving an area because it's good for them. I hate the cutthroat culture and the playing of states against each other all so that they can stay for free for two years and then get up and leave after their deal is over, despite making promises to stay beyond their lease or whatever. I can't stand these idiots, so when it comes to people like the owners of a sports team saying that they want to avoid the luxury tax at all costs it makes me laugh. Grow up, get over yourself, and pay up for once in your life. Sorry, the whole thing just makes me very angry.
Cap space is determined by salary cap minus money allocated players under contract. Your trade idea does not change the number of players under contract for 2015-2016. Since the Celtics are over the cap, swapping a group of expiring contracts for another group of expiring contacts doesn't change anything.
The luxury tax has an increasing penalty for teams that are repeat payers of the tax. It's generally accept that it only makes sense to risk paying that greater penalty when you have a team that is a contender. Even then, it seems like Lebron James left Miami in part due to the owner being unwilling to foot a large luxury tax bill.
Thanks for making my point. Miami let Mike Miller walk because they were concerned about the luxury tax and it certainly came back to haunt them in the finals, imo. I'm not saying that Miller would have been the difference between winning and losing a title, but iirc he was a huge factor in that 2013 series.
Also, I know how cap room is created, haha, but how would such a trade not help us financially after next season? All 3 of those guys come off the books in addition to Thornton, if he isn't moved beforehand, so aside from losing Rondo, what's the downside? If we went with the larger trade I proposed which included a trade of Jeff Green for Tayshaun Prince, then we'd really have so room, both financially and on the roster.
I hate to say it, but next season is just going to be another throwaway year aimed at getting us a high draft pick in order to be in a position to select a great a big man, which will undoubtedly fail lol. I don't know what people expect this season to be other than more of the same from last year, albeit with a couple of promising rookies. Sorry if that's a bleak outlook.