The Warriors started the season with the limit of 17 authorized players, including 15 standard contracts, bringing their payroll to a rather staggering total of $ 175.192 million knowing that the salary cap limit is set at $ 112.414 million and the luxury tax at 143 million dollars, which means that Californians are already 32.19 million dollars above.
Knowing that the penalties for a team exceeding the luxury tax are exponential, the Warriors, as it stands, will have a luxury tax bill of over $ 160 million, almost as much as their salaries cost them. their players. This will of course be the record since it has been held by the Nets since 2013-14 with “only” $ 90.6 million.
Despite this, Joe Lacob has not hesitated to extend Stephen Curry for a huge contract, and he is ready to pay the price, much less cautious than a lot of owners.
“Honestly, when you invest in something, do you really think about it all? You can’t, you just have to do your job, enjoy life, ”explained Lacob. “I cannot worry about the day to day what the payroll will be. Of course, I know there is a lot of risk when you have a payroll of this amount, and you have to earn. You expect to win, you have to win in order to justify everything we do here. I don’t care about it day to day, we don’t. We just do our job, make the right decisions, go for it and try to win. “
Before laughing about it
“Do you have to remind me of that?” »Lacob said with a laugh.
To see if this decision will pay off, but for the moment the Warriors are starting their season well.
Joe Lacob says he doesn’t worry about the team’s payroll “on a day-to-day basis.” pic.twitter.com/WekvwVkhIu
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