Impact of Jayson Tatum's Injury and Celtics' Strategic Moves

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00:00what's the reaction to uh you know the tatum torn achilles uh people have already said that

00:08uh the knicks are gonna go to the uh nba finals and and meanwhile they fired their coach and

00:14you know when he went down and when halliburton went down it opened the door for the knicks

00:19allegedly and then they traded porzingis what's the fallout from all this well it's you know they

00:27don't like to use the word rebuild around here but it's definitely a you know a recalibration

00:33of uh you know what they're doing financially they knew independent of jason tatum's injury

00:39that there were some very difficult financial conversations that were going to be coming up

00:44this offseason in terms of getting under that dreaded second apron and wanting to avoid all

00:48of these additional tax penalties i won't bore you with all the minutia of the collective bargaining

00:53agreement obviously but they're you know it's it's just the new harsh reality of the nba that

00:58you can only be a repeat offender in terms of the luxury tax and first apron second apron x number

01:03of times before you got to really decimate your roster potentially to cut costs and the celtics

01:09found themselves in a place where they didn't want to be in the repeater tax as a second apron team

01:14again and so that meant having to get off of especially drew holiday who obviously they traded

01:21away to portland he had a you know a lot of money remaining on the few years left on his deal

01:26and chris taps porzingis who you brought up who went to atlanta you know they they could have you

01:32know kept him around as an expiring deal and decided to move off the money elsewhere but as it was they

01:38got rid of those two guys to barely get under the second apron and they're still over the first apron

01:43which is why they're talking about maybe anthony simons who they acquired in the holiday deal could

01:48he be traded away could george niang who came over from the hawks be traded away could uh sam hauser

01:54still be we don't expect al horford's going to re-sign luke cornett's already gone

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