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buckalis
Trainer of Don Diego de la Vega
You act like they won't have saved exceptions of their own, nor they'll be buying any coming with the contracts they are to sign in the future...You place too much emphasis on the luxury tax and not enough on the salary cap.
The problem is, no matter what moves the Warriors make, they are not going below the salary cap threshold.
So, even if they did avoid the luxury tax for a year or two, the won't be able to simply reload because they will be above the cap and stuck with MLE, minimum contracts and trades as a way to improve the roster.
If what you said was true, they won't have any real trade assets aside from their big 3 to work with because they will have gotten rid of all their other meaningful salary. A string of late first round picks doesn't net a whole lot.
In other words, if the Warriors are going to continue to contend, paying needed pieces is the most realistic way to do it. They can't later replace the salary that they shed now.
Like the Cavs are now doing, GSW will on purpose stay just under the lux tax for the following two seasons... Then they'll be buying players that carry cap holds and only watch the series they resign contracts for the third season.
For instance... do expect the Bucks to resign Brogdon first out of their free agents (because he has the smaller cap hold) and Mirotic last....