They will think harder before doing so again. The Warriors, Nets, and Clippers have a half-billion or so to be distributed to all the nonpaying teams. That's new, and hard to pass up.
Definitely agree that they won't do it for this team now, but if they have a legit title chance I think Dan Gilbert would pay a LOT of money to stick it to LeBron at least a bit
I might be misremembering, but haven't the Cavs already shown they'd go into the luxury tax for a contender, as they did in the (second) LeBron era?
They will think harder before doing so again. The Warriors, Nets, and Clippers have a half-billion or so to be distributed to all the nonpaying teams. That's new, and hard to pass up.
Definitely agree that they won't do it for this team now, but if they have a legit title chance I think Dan Gilbert would pay a LOT of money to stick it to LeBron at least a bit