A league source said the Pacers’ offer to Turner topped out at around $23
million per year, short of what he got from Milwaukee. Turner essentially
wanted what he got from the Bucks, something closer to $27 million a year.
With the compounding luxury tax, had Indiana given Turner what he wanted, it
would have paid around $11 million in taxes on top of his salary. In
addition, by being a taxpayer, the Pacers would have lost the refund money
that teams staying out of the tax receive annually from taxpaying teams,
which is usually between $5 and $10 million per year.
Pacers ownership was less willing to pay tax for a team that was less likely
to contend next season without Haliburton. It was still willing to pay it —
to a point. The most generous prediction, though, even within the building,
is that Indy could be a middle-of-the-pack team next year. Realistically,
just as with Boston and other teams that lost their star player, the more
likely result is that Indiana takes a step back.
有消息來源透露溜馬開給Tuner的報價是年均23M左右的合約，這比公鹿還要少，Turner
最後拿到的年均27M的報價比較符合他心目中預期的數字
但如果溜馬跟進了公鹿這筆報價，需要多付11M的稅，而溜馬則會失去每年從豪華稅球隊
中拿到的分紅大概是5-10M左右
在哈利報銷後，溜馬管理層對於繳稅的慾望就沒有那麼強烈了，他們仍願意花錢，但
有底線，因為現況是，就連球隊內部以最樂觀的方式評估溜馬，都認為他們明年會是
中後段的球隊
更現實地說，就像塞爾提克或其他失去球星的球隊一樣，溜馬必須向後退一步
另外有一段提到親近Ayton的消息來源透露他有把溜馬列入考慮的加入球隊名單中
A source close to Ayton said Tuesday that the Pacers would be “considered”
as a potential landing spot.
https://reurl.cc/vL3K6e
不過記者個人觀點認為加入溜馬對Ayton來說會是一種挑戰，因為卡帥不會縱容這種不成
熟的球員，其他的隊友例如Siakam TJM Nembhard等人也不會
就是加入要有被教練跟隊友緊緊盯著的心理準備就是，就算沒了哈利，溜馬還是不會輕易
放棄比賽
而他們會繼續尋找新的禁區補強
其實還有補充說Turner的效率嚴重取決於哈利是否在場上，在哈利報銷後也凸顯Turner
的短版等....但最根本的原因還是稅就是了
溜馬認為自己下一季沒機會 因此就決定從稅線上撤退了
公鹿則是因為手握字母哥 還決定再拚一把 就是路線選擇的不同