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NBA teams established a new record for luxury tax penalties during the 2021/22 season, as seven clubs paid total tax payments exceeding $481MM, blowing away the previous single-year record of approximately $173MM. A year later, that record is on track to be shattered once again. According to Eric Pincus of Sports Business Classroom, the nine teams that are currently over the … [Read more...] about Projected NBA Taxpayers For 2022/23

The disabled player exceptions that teams have been granted throughout the 2022/23 season will expire if they’re not used on Friday, since March 10 is the deadline to use or lose those exceptions. As our breakdown shows, the Celtics, Pistons, Raptors, and Thunder each received a disabled player exception due to season-ending injuries suffered by Danilo Gallinari, Cade … [Read more...] about 2022/23 Disabled Player Exceptions Set To Expire

Celtics forward Grant Williams has been playing through a ligament strain in his right (shooting) elbow that has been exacerbated by muscle inflammation in the surrounding area, league sources tell Jared Weiss of The Athletic. Williams has been wearing a sleeve on his elbow since February 12, Weiss writes, which is around the time he sustained the injury. According to Weiss, … [Read more...] about Celtics Notes: G. Williams, Brown, Pritchard, Davison

It has been nearly a month since the NBA’s trade deadline passed, and the post-deadline transaction wire continues to be pretty busy, with teams that opened up roster spots at or since the deadline still working to fill them. Clubs are also making plenty of roster moves with their players on two-way contracts, opening up two-way slots by either promoting those players to … [Read more...] about NBA Teams With Open Roster Spots

Following a recent hot streak by the Hornets, three clubs have separated themselves from the pack in the NBA’s race to the bottom. Barring a major surprise, the Pistons (15-51), Rockets (15-50), and Spurs (16-49) will finish as the NBA’s worst three teams. Even if Charlotte (21-46) doesn’t pick up another win for the rest of the season, San Antonio would have to go 5-12 the … [Read more...] about The Second-Round Subplot In NBA’s Three-Team Race To The Bottom

Two years ago, the Knicks followed up a successful, expectation-defying regular season with a quick playoff exit, as they fell in five games to Atlanta. This year’s team, which has also gotten hot after a shaky start, bears some similarities to that 2020/21 squad. However, forward Julius Randle is higher on the current Knicks’ ceiling. “I think we’re a better team,” Randle … [Read more...] about New York Notes: Knicks, Quickley, Noel, Nets

We still have nearly five weeks left in the NBA’s regular season, and play-in results, tiebreakers, and the draft lottery will further clarify what this year’s draft order will look like. However, as the season enters its home stretch, we’re starting to get a clearer sense of which traded 2023 first-round picks will actually change hands (as opposed to falling in their … [Read more...] about Checking In On Traded 2023 First-Round Picks

Jayson Tatum (left knee contusion) and Al Horford (low back stiffness) both missed the Celtics‘ double overtime loss to Cleveland on Monday. As Tim Bontemps of ESPN observes (via Twitter), Horford played 45 minutes on Sunday and still hasn’t played both ends of a back-to-back set this season, so his absence came as no surprise. Tatum sustained his injury in a collision on … [Read more...] about Tatum, Horford Missed Monday’s Loss

Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla announced that center Robert Williams will be sidelined for seven to 10 days with a strained left hamstring, writes Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe. However, given Williams’ history of injuries, Washburn believes he could be out longer and it might be best to shut him down until the playoffs. Williams didn’t play Sunday after hurting his hamstring … [Read more...] about Celtics Notes: R. Williams, Mazzulla, White, Horford