By james art 
Dan Gilbert is an extremely rich man.
Depending on who you ask, Gilbert’s net value is $ 24 to $ 29 billion, give or get several hundred million. As the leader of the largest mortgage lender in the country, now known as Quichen loans, Gilbert has accumulated great wealth that continues to grow.
One of his investments, which also continues to grow, is Cleveland Cavaliers. Gilbert bought the team in 2005 for then a record price of $ 375 million. 20 years later Forbes estimated the value of a franchisee of $ 3.95 billion. This is an incredible return on investment. During Gilbert’s time to own the team, while he certainly had a few rock moments, Cavs reached five NBA finals and won the 2016 championship.
Gilbert is a businessman and as such is probably trying to get out of any business transaction that makes money. Still, he probably also understands the value of the success of the court and what he does for the overall profit line of the team. This makes it difficult for the analysis exactly where the team’s priorities are within the NBA trading deadline.
Cleveland Cavaliers have multiple options for the trading deadline
With the NBA trading deadline in just one week, the trails in front of Cleveland Cavaliers tend to fall into three categories. The first is that they just stand Pat, keeping together the list that leads the Eastern Conference and leaves this season to play.
The second is pressed in its other assets-it is precisely a combination of their choice from the first round of 2031 Defense wing.
The last time seems unexpected, given the status of Cavaliers as a contender for the title, but he is also the one who many around the League expect Cleveland to take: Save money.
Moreover, Cavaliers is $ 1.9 million above the luxury tax line for this season. Historically, teams that are so close to the line tend to do everything they need to get out of the tax – this not only saves them from paying an additional tax on that $ 1.9 million, but that means that it means that They are eligible for the luxury tax payment of teams without taxes, which can be over $ 20 million this season.
However, on top of this, this season, leaving the luxury tax will reset the clock of the dreaded “re -tax tax”, which begins for teams in the tax for several years in a row. As Donovan Mitchell and Evan mobbies will launch new contracts next season, which pay them much more money, the cavaliers will probably be in the luxury tax in the next few seasons. If they stay in the tax this year, these future teams will be much more expensive.
Therefore, everyone analyzes the cavaliers before the deadline for trading, they seem to be convinced that they will take on Road # 3 and focus on paying a salary. When ESPN’s Bobby Marks broke the entire league in commercial levels, he put the cavaliers into “watching the bottom” with other teams who want to pay a salary.
Not just mark, who expects an approach to reduce costs to the deadline: it literally seems that everyone thinks so. HoopHype Michael Scotto reported that while cavaliers said it could pay the luxury tax that “NBA leaders are skeptical elsewhere and that they believe Cleveland would” try to transfer the trade tax “. Dan Favale’s report from Bleacher saw the report that Cleveland was ready to pay the tax and said “This feels like a lie” when discussing CAVS candidates this year.
So now we are returning to the net value of Dan Gilbert. The involvement of the tax on the repeater is an extremely criminal reality, especially for teams tens of millions in the tax. This will cost Gilbert a lot of money to keep the team intact for the next four, five, six seasons, if he is forced to pay it.
However, at the same time, the re -tax does not come with any restrictions on the construction of a team other than paying more money. If Gilbert is comfortable with a higher bill-as Joe Lakob and Steve Balmer have made in recent seasons-then he will direct the cavaliers to move only to maximize his court game. If he wants to “win the transaction”, then the intelligent business move is likely to move away from something now to save a lot of money along the way.
Does Dan Gilbert want to pay? Will Cleveland’s front office “lie” and they will actually throw money? One week to find out the priorities of this team within the trade period, a deadline that may have shock waves that extend for years to come.