Boston Celtics (18x NBA champions)

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Warriors owner Joe Lacob says he won't try to buy hometown Celtics: 'That ship sailed a long time ago'

The Celtics' majority ownership group, led by Wyc Grousbeck, announced it would sell the team earlier this summer

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Another is the Celtics' impending luxury tax bill, which will be even steeper under the punative second apron in the new collective bargaining agreement.
Earlier this summer, the team gave Jayson Tatum the richest contract in NBA history, a five-year, $314 million extension, which surpassed the five-year, $303 million deal Jaylen Brown got last summer. In addition, Derrick White earned a four-year, $125 million extension. Add in $30-plus million a year for Jrue Holiday and Kristaps Porzingis, and the Celtics' payroll will be over $200 million by 2025-26. Assuming they keep the team together that long, the expected luxury tax would be $250 million, bringing the total for that season to north of $450 million, for that year alone.
In the coming years, whomever owns the Celtics will either have to foot a historic tax bill or break up a title-winning team. While Grousbeck has declined to go into further detail regarding his family's decision to step away, it's clear that they don't want to be the ones to make that decision.

Just sayin': That's a lot of "luxury tax" for 1 season.....

"But, but but the league is as fair as it can be1" Cleveland wasn't near that with fucking Lebron. What would Chicago pay now with their lineup? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

 

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Celtics' Joe Mazzulla wants to bring fighting back to NBA: 'What's more entertaining than a little scuffle?'

Mazzulla's plans might not be the best for his players but he understands what the people want

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Celtics' Joe Mazzulla wants to bring fighting back to NBA: 'What's more entertaining than a little scuffle?'​

Mazzulla's plans might not be the best for his players but he understands what the people want​

Anyone who follows the NBA with any sort of regularity knows by now that Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla is an odd cat. To me, he's odd in awesome ways. The guy supposedly watched "The Town" two to three times a week at one point in his life, and he has real thoughts on how to actually rob Fenway Park, to the point that he scopes out exit points when he's at Red Sox games. Honestly, the guy is a treasure.

So when Mazzulla made an appearance on Boston radio and was asked what he would change about the NBA, you knew he wasn't going to give a stock answer. True to form, Mazzulla elaborated on why the NBA should institute power plays after fouls, forcing the offending team to play a man down for a length of time, as in hockey.

Oh, and he also wants to "bring back fighting."

"The biggest thing that we rob people of from an entertainment standpoint is you can't fight anymore. I wish we'd bring back fighting," Mazzulla said on NBC Sports Boston in a manner that certainly didn't sound like he was trying to be funny. "What's more entertaining than a little scuffle? How come in baseball they're allowed to clear the benches? How come in hockey they're allowed to fight? I don't understand. I just don't get why some sports are allowed to clear the benches. They have bats and weapons [in baseball]. We don't. We have a ball. The other sport [hockey] has one of the hardest playing surfaces and a puck and a stick. And yet we're not allowed to throw down a little bit?"


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Just sayin': Bad idea.