The first year of the Holiday extension is a flat $30M.

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How can San Antonio build a competitive team around Victor Wembanyama?

Patience or accelerate the rebuild?

With Kevin Pelton

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Clean sweep of bonuses for Hartenstein

✅Minutes played
✅Team Wins
✅First round of the playoffs

💰$1,050,000

Hartenstein reached the same bonuses in 2022-23

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Isaiah Hartenstein

✅ First round of the playoffs

💰$350K

Irving reached the games played criteria on March 26 but needed Dallas to win 50 games to reach the incentive.

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Kyrie Irving

✅ Games played (50) and Team Wins (50)

💰$1M

The Irving cap hit in 2024-25 will get adjusted to $41M.

The Mavericks remain under the luxury tax ($802K below) for this season.

Breaking down the Jrue Holiday 4-year, $135M extension.

The impact in Boston next season and the future.

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The benefit from the extension is that Boston eliminates $5.7M of likely/unlikely bonuses that would have counted toward the first/second apron.

Celtics now have wiggle room to get under the apron at the trade deadline if needed.

Celtics projected payroll: 2024-25

Video coming but you can get away with being an apron team when you have depth.

Boston has that next season.

Not including bonuses, Holiday had a base salary of $37.3M in 2024-25.

The first year of the extension will reduce his salary to $30M, saving Boston over $35M in luxury tax penalties.

BREAKING: After arriving in a blockbuster offseason trade, Boston Celtics guard Jrue Holiday has agreed on a four-year, $135 million contract extension, his agent Jason Glushon of Glushon Sports Mgmt tells ESPN.

MEDICAL UPDATE: Giannis Antetokounmpo left last night’s win vs. Boston in the third quarter with a left soleus (calf) injury.

Antetokounmpo underwent an MRI last night that confirmed the diagnosis of a left soleus (calf) strain. He will miss the remaining three games of the…

2024-25 Minnesota Timberwolves projected payroll

After decades of futility, the Timberwolves are the West’s top seed and Lore and Rodriguez’s cost-cutting projections were among the concerns that led Taylor to void a contract that would’ve finalized the sale of the Timberwolves and WNBA Lynx, sources said.

ESPN Sources: Timberwolves minority partners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez submitted financial projections forecasting a sizable retreat in roster payroll that majority owner Glen Taylor believed would jeopardize franchise’s ability to compete for a title: espn.com/nba/story/_/id…

Adam Silver says at today’s press conference following the Board of Governors meetings that it’s unclear if the NBA has a role to play in the Timberwolves sale dispute. He says the two sides agreed to a mediation plan in the original sales agreement and that’s where it stands.

Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns isn’t planning to play vs. the Denver Nuggets tonight on ESPN in a showdown for first-place in the West, but a return on the weekend against Atlanta or Phoenix looms possible, sources tell ESPN. He’s been out since March 4 with a meniscus injury.

Atlanta Hawks All-Star guard Trae Young is nearing a return and could play as soon as tonight vs. the Charlotte Hornets, sources tell ESPN. Young had been out since surgery to repair a torn ligament in a finger on February 25. The Hawks hold the final Eastern Play-In spot.

What a difference a year makes.

New York was on the verge of a late lottery pick last season that could have resulted in Dereck Lively II, Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Brandin Podziemski.

Now the Knicks have a first in the mid-20's.