Why The Brooklyn Nets Should Consider A Fire Sale

Payroll for 2014-15

This is sticky here, because there are quite a few teams that have opted to go over the luxury tax. The Brooklyn Nets specifically have to pay over $94 million for their payroll, which is way too much. This is especially the case when you take into account the players that they are paying. They are paying players the kind of money that Jimmy Butler or Klay Thompson should be getting.

Instead, you’re getting Joe Johnson.

That is not a jab at Johnson, but the truth is that he is not worth his current contract, not while paying him more than $23 million this season and $24 million next season. The same thing goes for Deron Williams, who is being paid almost $20 million this season, and Brook Lopez, who is being paid almost $16 million.

It is all simply too much to be paying these players, and doesn’t bode well financially for the team. This is a case in point to the fact that an owner cannot simply just buy a team and expect a championship to emerge from that. Teams have to have chemistry, they have to be nurtured, coached well, and a host of other facts. There are hidden elements within all that.

Why do you think the San Antonio Spurs are so good?

They’ve got the trust and the experience that nobody else has.

Brooklyn impatiently rushed through the process, flinging money ahead of them as they tried to dethrone the Miami Heat for a championship.

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