Miami Heat To Break Up Big 3 Due To Luxury Tax?

[PTBG]

As a repeat taxpayer, the Heat will be facing the highest incremental tax rates in NBA history. If, for example, the luxury-tax threshold is established at $75 million -- a highly optimistic gain of roughly $5 million from this season -- the Heat could be faced with a tax bill approaching $48 million. In total, they would be paying $141.3 million for 12 players.

"They're going to have to break up their team,'' predicted a rival general manager who has done the math.

Unless the NBA's financial circumstances improve over the next couple of years, Arison will be faced with two unhappy choices: The Heat could run a big deficit in 2014-15 to pursue the championship, or he could break up their winning roster by way of trades, amnesty or by not re-signing James, Wade or Bosh, should they exercise their options to become free agents in 2014.

If league revenues were to jump higher than expected over the next two years, the tax threshold would be raised accordingly and Arison might be able to find a way to escape with his team intact. But the NBA's TV contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT don't expire until 2016, and league executives don't foresee major financial gains rescuing the NBA before the repeater tax takes effect.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/ian_thomsen/12/06/sixth-man-nba-cba-nicolas-batum/index.html
Why do I got a feeling that this is Mark Cuban saying this?

 

[Da King]

LOL @ :fif: Lakers fans praying for the fall for an eastern conference team


damn yall fell off

 

[dem bath salts]

Mickey said he's willing to pay the tax as long as the team is competitive. And this is nothing but a four to five year run anyway and we're in year 3

 

[Alexander The Great]

don't they know Micky is a fukking Billionaire

 

[Ronnie Lott]

 

[PTBG]

LOL @ :fif: Lakers fans praying for the fall for an eastern conference team


damn yall fell off

How the fukk em I praying or said I wanted the Heat to fail? You been using a bit too much coming from an Spurs stan like yourself.

 

[Da King]

How the fukk em I praying or said I wanted the Heat to fail? You been using a bit too much coming from an Spurs stan like yourself.

hit .500 before you ever speak directly to a Spurs fan

 

[Jplaya2023]

Wade getting thrown in the bushes

 

[Easy-E]

don't they know Micky is a fukking Billionaire

48,000,000 is 48 millions

 

[radio rahiem]

hit .500 before you ever speak directly to a Spurs fan

 

[PTBG]

hit .500 before you ever speak directly to a Spurs fan

We only 3 games under for now, wait till Nashty Nash comes back, yall ain't ready, THEY SCARED

 

[dem bath salts]

Wade getting thrown in the bushes

The Heat are one the most loyal franchises in the NBA. Probably too loyal. They wont even throw Haslem's ass in the bushes. Money Mike getting the boot since he has one of the biggest contracts on the team.

 

[Top Flight Security]

Unless the NBA's financial circumstances improve over the next couple of years

greed is a motherfukker

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

could've been a lot worse if Dolan, Arison, Buss and a couple of other owners didn't get their way during the lockout

 

[Regular_P]

No chance in hell they break up that squad. Non-story.