08-07-2022, 07:13 AM
(08-06-2022, 11:32 PM)F Gump Wrote: I don't understand this. I thought UT was far under the tax line with no tax concerns. $20M over (a payroll in excess of $170M) would make them one of the league's big spenders. Spotrac has them at only $142M.
Obviously, all owners (especially those with a rebuilding tanking team facing reduced attendance for a while) want to reduce payroll. So that would be a plus in the trade you mention. I too have proposed UT-related trade ideas based on that premise. But it looks to me like tax paying (and the multiplier on salary that creates) has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, I was looking at Spotrac also and I have no idea which team I was looking at. I thought I had loaded Utah, but clearly I hadn’t.
Yes, rebuilding teams tend toward lower salary totals. I’d carry it a step further and say they generally don’t want long term commitments for mediocre players either. One of the themes behind trades I propose is keeping long term salary (like Fournier) off of their books. That is one of the few places someone like Powell might play a role…plus Utah is super thin at center.