stack players and pay a penalty or lose players and stay under. you can't force the lakers to stay in the luxury tax and depend on that income.

thats the whole point of the fucking system in the first place!

>I don't care who you are, if you think a company you own a
>stake in is making a decision which will cost you money, why
>the fuck would you just passively sit by and let that happen?
>I mean, even if he figured out it was just going to cost him
>$50k, why not make a stink? that money could potentially
>cover the cost of an add'l ticket sales staff in Cleveland,
>and Gilbert should just give that away for free?

he doesn't have a say in how the other teams want to run their organization. if the lakers want to shed salary and become less competitive in the process (which this trade does), thats their right.

and if you didn't want paul going to the lakers, then you should have fucking said something about it before you allowed your GM to shop him to the lakers.