It’s hard to be in the nails with three players pumping out almost $80 million a year, so the Celtics will be slightly more red than green this season. Choice assumed on the part of the front office by recovering the veteran Al Horford, very expensive but perhaps more useful than we want to believe for advancing the young shoots of Massachusetts.
A practical guide to the Salary Cap and the Exceptions
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Financial situation in relation to the course
- The Luxury Tax threshold is set at $136,606,000 this year.
- The NBA Salary Cap is set at $112,414,000 this year.
- With 148,983,802$ contractually committed to this 2021-22 season, the Celtics are clearly not the promo majors. Three contracts max or almost that ruins your salary scale and if you want to surround your cracks, well we let you finish the sentence. A hard time to pass before the beautiful days, well that’s what they all say.
Players under guaranteed contracts for the following season: 4
- Jayson Tatum
- Jaylen Brown
- Marcus Smart
- Robert Williams III
Big-up at the FO who managed to keep the big Robert for five years and at a lower cost and the Captain Smart at a reasonable price too, and for the rest the youngsters will have to prove themselves to know whether or not they deserve to be part of the project. Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown saw themselves passing the noose around their necks and that’s quite logical, and the rest of the roster will look like general jokers this year (Richardson, Schroder, Hernangomez…).
Three players in interesting situations this season
- Al Horford : the party will soon be over for Tonton Al, who is entering the last year of a smoking contract signed the year of his arrival in Philadelphia. Useful +++ in Boston then on the street in Pennsylvania and not in his element in Oklahoma, Alain is back with the Celtics to act as a relay for Ime Udoka and bring all his science to a racket that has lacked it since his departure. The end of the road for the five-time All-Star, who will clearly not have the right to such pay slips next season but which may allow the C’s to put the binder they lacked on both sides of the field . Enjoy Alou, and we hope you’ve put a little tunasse aside.
- Dennis Schroder : we talked about it, we talked about it again and we even drooled about it: Dennis Schroder therefore refused an offer of 80 million from the Lakers to finally find himself at less than… 6 million in Boston. After the operation that everyone does in their little heads, let’s see the positive (for Boston) and let’s argue that the C’s will therefore have a player this year bordering 6MOY for a pittance, and that Dennis’ minimum salary or almost will probably allow him to play without pressure and to redo the icing before going to hunt for a new contract next summer. We therefore wish him to close a few mouths and above all to be better at negotiating in nine months, but whatever happens Schroder is today the owner of one of the most interesting contracts in the League for a franchise.
- Romeo Langford, Payton Pritchard, Grant Williams et Aron Nesmith : the youth of the Greens is no longer so green and the long-awaited shift has now arrived. We are talking about players drafted by the Celtics and brought to be part of a short-term project, a project of which they… will not be part if the season which begins in eleven days is not satisfactory. Here we are pretty much at peace for Aron Nesmith, who could even recover a titular slot and live with it, we are divided on the case of Payton Pritchard, who despite everything seems to please Brad Stevens a lot, but we are much less for the cubic Grant Williams, used for two years as a solid but limited piston, and for Romeo Langford, whose flow for the moment is equaled only by the time it takes to launch his career. Anyway the Celtics will have the possibility during the season to exercise the options on these four players and one thing is certain, they will not do it for the whole gang, because a young person… well, that gets old.