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NBA 02/02/2015, 21.41

Warriors ready to pay luxury tax in 2015-2016

Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob told The Bay Area News Group that the franchise is willing to do everything to win the title

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The Golden State Warriors are ready to pay luxury tax in 2015-2016.

 

According to Hoopsrumors, The Warriors have more than $77.5MM in salary committed to just eight players for next season, and that doesn’t include a new deal for soon-to-be restricted free agent Draymond Green, along with other variables. The league won’t set the tax threshold for next season until July, but Sean Deveney of The Sporting News wrote in December that thelatest projection pegged it at $81MM.

Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob told The Bay Area News Group that the franchise is willing to do everything to win the title.

“And you know what? We’re OK with that,” Lacob said to Kawakami about the likelihood the team will pay the tax. “I tell [GM] Bob [Myers] all the time; he keeps asking me, ‘Are you sure?’ We’re prepared to do whatever it takes to win a championship; I’ve said that before. You want to do it when the timing is right. Maybe the timing’s right, right? We’re pretty good. And so, I think we need to take advantage of that and go for it. Our fans, that’s what they want to hear. And the truth is, it’s what I want to hear. And what I want to think. And what our management and ownership … there isn’t one owner that I know of or one person in management here that doesn’t think this way. Luxury tax? It’s not something you want to do, it’s very penal. But [we] can’t be worried about that right now. That is really not the issue. The issue is being the best team we can be and we’re going to do whatever it takes.”

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