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The 7-year deal, which includes a mutual opt-out after the sixth year, also establishes an in-season tournament, a prerequisite 65 games played for award eligibility, as well as an additional luxury tax apron.
This additional apron will sit at $17.5 million above the cap, which would apply to this season as well as the following three with the way their payroll sits now. The motive for the change, as explained in reporting from ESPN’s Woj, Tim Bontemps, and Bobby Marks:
“The NBA is curbing the ability of the highest-spending teams, such as the Golden State Warriors and the LA Clippers, to continue running up salary and luxury tax spending while still maintaining mechanisms to add talent to the roster.”
The “curbing” involves restrictions like no more taxpayer mid-level exception (which I recently called the Suns’ only hope at retaining Josh Okogie), trading first-round picks that are seven years away or cash considerations, buyout free agents, and taking on more money than is being sent out.