Mike Vorkunov
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601 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 27 Jul
Mike Vorkunov’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
And the basketball related income balance is.
it gets thrown out of whack.
Well, that, that, but also like, you know, if you're a team like Boston and you have two 35% guys, but they count as 30%, right.
And that extra, I don't know, 15, $20 million, you got to make sure you have an ownership group that's able to float that financially.
And so they're almost kind of like paying different sums than if, um, yeah.
If the Milwaukee Bucks had, you know, two 35 percent guys who they didn't who couldn't couldn't be in that type of class.
Right.
So it's almost players teams are going to have to pay different amounts of money for the same cost, basically.
Sure.
Well, this is a question I've had to try to think through, and I really don't know the answer.
I don't know if the most punitive part of the second apron in this system is the roster building mechanisms that, you know, you lose out on if you're in the second apron, let alone freezing your pick, or if it's the higher tax payments that you'll have to make.
Right.
Because the last CBA also increased higher tax multiples when you're above, I think,
$20 million over the tax line or something like that, right?
So basically you're just paying more in taxes.
And so is that the bigger problem rather than it is, you know, losing your first round pick?
And that's the part we don't talk about, right?
We don't talk about the tax punishments as much as we do the like, well, you won't get to sign and trade and, you know, your own guy to another team in the second apron got you for that reason.
It costs a lot of money.
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