The past 72 hours since Boston Celkus It was eliminated from the qualifiers was a whirlpool of emotions, conversations, and not sleeping for Stevens’s refrigerator.
The team’s basketball head is fully aware that there are many questions for him and the front desk, as Celkus begins a season outside, which will be attributed to the challenges that were expected and unexpected in this season.
“I know that there will be a lot of questions about the next,” Stevens said during his press conference at the end of the season on Monday. “At the end of the day, I think all of this will move the same thing that always leads us and this” How can we get ourselves in the mixture to compete for the best championships? “
Nevertheless, the synchron Jason TatumGaylin Brown era, and certainly under the supervision of Stevens.
Boston faces two situations: It is scheduled that the star Jason Tatum will miss most of the next season due to a devastating torn Achilles tendon. Loss of game 4 to New York Nix; Celkus faces a large number of difficult employee decisions, list movements and financial penalties due to their status.
“The next time Jason Tatom has played – if we assume that he will miss every year 2025 – this team will be completely different,” said Nick Wright on Monday on “First Things First”.
With the salary statements in Boston for the next season on the right track at about 225 million dollars, the tax bill next year will be about 280 million dollars. The total potential total price of $ 500 million will be a record in the league under the very current collective negotiation agreement.
It is unclear whether the ownership of the team will want to continue to pay these huge penalties after the approval of a purchase in March is expected to be at least 6.1 billion dollars. If they do not, this means that they will have to separate many players from the 2024 title team.
“I know they will reduce salaries,” Wright said. “If you are a fan of Celkus, I only hope, the next time, the next time Jason Tatom has taken the court, Gayne Braones, Derek White His teammates are still on the team, and I don’t know if possible. “
To make this possible, Boston will definitely trading Jrue holidayKristaps porzingis and Sam Hoser. The holiday is scheduled to make $ 104 million in the next three seasons. Porzzis remained one year on a deal, at a price of $ 30.7 million. And hauser under a three -year contract, 35 million dollars. While Porzingis and Hauser’s deals may not seem excessively expensive, they cost more than the nominal value due to the sanctions that CELTICS must pay in exchange for being in the second apron.
“If they just want to trade Sam Hoser, he will save them 62 million dollars because his contract of $ 10 million costs them 50 million dollars of sanctions,” Wright said.
He speaks in estimates, but the feelings are clear. Boston in a bad place.
Similar penalties will be incurred if they want to return free factors Horford and Look Cornet. Espn mentioned For every 3 million dollars spending Boston, another $ 25 million per person will be handled. Simply put, if Horford agrees, for some reason, on a one -year deal worth $ 3 million, the team will cost 28 million dollars.
Another issue for Boston is that Brooklyn Nets and Detroit Bestones are in fact the only two teams with the maximum area of this season. Therefore, it will be difficult to completely exempt their problems as these teams may ask for a heavy capital draft to hold large money contracts in Boston.
“The next time Jason Tatom has played – if we assume that he will miss every year 2025 – this team will be completely different,” said Wright.
Stevens, the year, often refused to provide details about what will happen in this process, saying that he would have more to say about her about The American Professional League draft. But he admitted that it was unclear whether the tournament windows became smaller because of the current CBA.
“This is a good question. I don’t know,” Stevens said. “I definitely think it’s more difficult in some circumstances.”
It was also clear despite other factors such as Gilin Brown The management of what Stevens emphasized is partially joint cartilage on his right knee, or Carspab Purzengis Boston’s post -virus syndrome did not prevent Boston from avoiding the sixth consecutive champion in not leaving the following season.
“I prefer talking about CBA and all that nonsense,” said Stevens jokingly. “The truth is that we detonated the first two games (against New York), and for this reason we put ourselves in a difficult place … this is not on any one. It is not super. It is not a bad decision. It is not bad luck. We have had an opportunity to win the first time in home games and we put ourselves behind 8-Ball.”
As for expectations to move forward in Brown and Borzengis, Stevens said he hoped that the absence will not be extended away from the court.
He said that Brown conveyed to him that his knee felt improving at the end of the New York series, and that he had encouraged him to play Porzzis to play with Latvia in Eurobasket in August.
He also has confidence that Brown can play any required role next season during the absence of Tatome.
“These men were the main parts of this program for a while. Therefore, there is no doubt about it,” Stevens said. “These men, they have achieved a lot. Certainly deserve all the confession and praise and the prizes they get. But, yes, this is a large part of us is the best version of ourselves.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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