The Celtics are a pricey basketball team, and they’re about to get even pricier.
Jayson Tatum’s supermax extension has yet to kick in. Jaylen Brown is already making north of $50 million per year. Jrue Holiday and Derrick White have inked nine-figure extensions.
Boston is currently in the league’s second tax apron, but they won’t be able to stay there for long, Celtics governor Wyc Grousbeck said during a recent interview on WEEI.
“It’s not the luxury tax bill, it’s the basketball penalties,” Grousbeck said. “The new CBA was designed by the league to stop teams from going crazy and they decided that it’s not good enough to just go after the wallets because then the fans are like ‘hey, find someone who can afford to spend whatever – $500 million per year or whatever it is.