The NBA is the stage of heroes, heroes also have lonely times, the 39-year-old Tucker is no longer as brave as he was back then, he is now a water cooler player waving a towel on the sidelines, he has been unhappy since he came to the Clippers and publicly applied for a trade, 75,000 US dollars, Tucker was heavily fined by the league, the 24-25 season Clippers pay Tucker's salary and luxury tax will reach a staggering $80.5 million, the Clippers want Tucker to give up the last year of the 11.5 million contract, but why should Tucker give up the contract he got with his strength for no reason? The Clippers have been completely crumbled by Tucker.
Tucker was traded to the Clippers at the beginning of the season with Harden, and the Clippers traded Covington + Batum + Martin Jr. + Morris Jr. + 2028 first-round pick + 26 first-round pick (from the Thunder) + 2 second-round picks + 1 draft swap right to get Harden + Tucker + Pidrushev.
Clippers reporter Tomer Azarly said on February 16 that the 76ers wanted to take Tucker in this trade, but the Clippers did not agree, and finally the 76ers pressured the Clippers to accept the trade plan.
Ironically, it was Tucker himself who broke the news that the president of the 76ers had told him that he would not be traded, but in the end he was traded, and now Beverley, Harden, Tucker and others have publicly said that they have been deceived by the president of the 76ers.
Tucker played 12 games for the Clippers, averaging 12 points and 24 rebounds, and the Clippers suffered a 6-game losing streak during that time, so Tyronn Lue completely abandoned Tucker.
Before the mid-term trade, Tucker had always wanted the Clippers to trade him to another team, but the Clippers ultimately did not fulfill Tucker's wish, and Tucker also thought that the league would be fined $75,000 for publicly requesting a trade, and according to the NBA's collective bargaining agreement, the maximum fine for an open request for a trade is $150,000, and the league only fined $75,000.
The Clippers could also buy out Tucker's contract, but that's completely out of the question, with the Clippers paying $1 this season9.4 billion will pay 99.27 million in luxury tax, and it stands to reason that the Clippers can reduce the luxury tax expenditure by buying out the Tucker contract.
Tucker's three-year, $33 million contract began in the summer of '22, with Tucker earning $11.01 million this season and $11.5 million in '24-25, with a player option for Tucker in '24-25.
It is impossible for the Clippers to buy out Tucker's contract now, if Tucker exercises the player option, it means that he has earned $22.51 million in the last two years, and now the buyout is amortized over 5 years, then Tucker's salary is 4.5 million per year, and the Clippers have triggered the super luxury tax, and the salary is more than one dollar to pay six dollars in luxury tax.
Therefore, the Clippers may pay 33.96 million in luxury tax every year, so the salary and luxury tax spent on Tucker in the last five years totaled $198.1 million, even if Ballmer is the world's top five richest man, he will not buy out Tucker's contract this season.
The Clippers bought out Tucker's contract this summer, and he earned 11.5 million in 24-25 years, with an amortization of 2.3 million per year over five years, and 13.8 million in luxury tax per year, spending a total of 80.5 million on Tucker. I have to say that the champion veteran has become a hot potato, and it is a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless, and the Clippers are in a dilemma.
Even if the Clippers have the idea of buying out Tucker, they can only implement it this summer, if Tucker does not exercise his player option, he is an expiring contract, and it is easy to be traded out before the mid-trade this year, but Tucker's attitude is that 3 years and 33 million are what I got based on my strength, why should I jump out of the contract and give up the 11.5 million salary.
The reason why Tucker attaches so much importance to the salary of 11.5 million in the 24-25 season is that he only got a total salary of 78.42 million in his career, and 11.5 million is the most salary he can get in a single year.
Tucker is the No. 35 pick in 2006, he can't get a foothold in the NBA and run overseas to play, he can only get a 2-year salary after returning to the Suns in 2012, and in 2014, the Suns renewed his contract with Tucker for 3 years and 16.5 million, and Tucker became a free agent in 2017, if he stays with the Raptors, he can get a 4-year 40 million contract, but he was fooled by his friend Paul to come to the Rockets and only get 4 years and 32 million.
In the 21-22 season, Tucker joined the Bucks and helped the team win the championship, but in the summer of 22, Tucker could only join the Heat with a 2-year 15 million mini middle class.
In 23, Harden gave a salary to the 76ers, and the 76ers could sign Tucker with a full mid-range of 33 million in 3 years, and Tucker also had to thank his good buddy Harden, if it wasn't for Harden's salary, Tucker wouldn't have gotten tens of millions of annual salaries.
Tucker worked hard to get an annual salary of tens of millions, how can there be a reason to say that you don't want it, so Tucker's idea is that he would rather sit on the bench with the Clippers and execute next season's 11.5 million contract, but the bad thing about Tucker is that since you want to take the money as that, why do you have to apply for a trade to set up the archway.
This summer, the Clippers can trade Tucker, whose contract expires, with a first-rounder, but the Clippers lost too many first-round picks in the previous deal, and they dare not trade easily, and if they don't trade Tucker's salary plus luxury tax of 80.5 million, the Clippers can't afford to support Tucker.
The Tucker-Clippers farce was expected to continue this summer, but Tucker was adamant that I could do anything, but I couldn't give up my $11.5 million salary, which I got out of my strength, and I couldn't live without it. It's not so much Tucker as it is that Tucker sees reality clearly, and the NBA is just a business, and nothing else is worth mentioning in the face of money and interests. Fans, what do you think about this? Leave me a review**.