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The Celtics luxury tax problem: Projecting the future payroll

Now that we’ve gotten a clearer picture of the repeater tax, let’s project how the Celtics’ cap sheet will look in the next few years so we can better understand some of the decisions the ownership will take. Remember, these numbers are not set in stone and can drastically change based on a lot of factors. In order to avoid a 10,000 word story of all these factors, we took the liberty of making some assumptions on the future.

What are the assumptions?

Cap Projections

In 2019-20 and 2020-21, the league’s own cap projections from earlier this year of $109M and $116M respectively were used.