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[QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 4687334, member: 1674"]
Bill Simmons brought up a really interesting point with the new luxury tax. I tend to think Josh Giddey is overrated in league circles, but Simmons was saying it's pretty reasonable that in a couple years, Giddey, Shai, and Chet Holmgren will all have to be paid the max and was basically saying if any of their other 30 first round picks pan out in a big way, they literally won't be able to keep the team together (if OKC's owners are even okay getting close to that new tax number to begin with, which is questionable).

So idk if the OKC example is actually a good one, but the overall point that the new tax makes it more difficult to simply stockpile picks as a rebuilding team was really interesting to me. It used to be a question as to whether or not teams had enough roster spaces to use all their draft picks; now it'll be a question of whether or not it's worth it to even try in the first place because it'll be impossible financially once those rookie contracts end.
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