The Brooklyn Nets started Tuesday with 12 players under contract and a payroll that went over the luxury tax line by $13,022,796. That number has the Nets owing $23,806,990 towards a 2015 tax payment. By the time the business day was over they had signed rookies Bojan Bogdanovic, Markel Brown and Cory Jefferson and that put them $17,315,468 over the tax line. They now owe a 2015 tax penalty of $36,275,270.
Here is the updated list of taxpayers and those just below the line:
Brooklyn
Over Tax Line: $17,315,468
Owed Tax: $36,275,270
New York
Over Tax Line: $14,586,336
Owed Tax: $27,715,840
LA Clippers
Over Tax Line: $2,850,772
Owed Tax: $4,276,158
Boston
Over Tax Line: $2,135,342
Owed Tax: $3,203,013
Just under tax line
Washington: -$157,397
Sacramento: -$976,295
Memphis: -$1,298,697
Oklahoma City: -$1,404,795
It should be noted that Boston has enough salaries that are not guaranteed and if those players are waived the team will fall under the luxury tax line.