NBA supermarkets are about to open?

With the Celtics ending their season today, the curse of the defending champion not being able to break through the divisional semifinal for six consecutive years continues to come true.

The Celtics are originally the focus of various teams this offseason. One is that the team will be rumored to change their bosses in the middle of the season and be predicted to rebuild the salary structure.

And this rumor became even more intense with the failure to win the championship.

The teams will not only observe whether the Celtics will put several core veterans on the shelves, but also observe how the Celtics operate under the luxury tax and how they deal with salary issues under the perverted new labor-capital agreement with 500 million yuan. This is also an operational example for teams to win the championship or defend the title in the future.

After all, if the team wins the championship, then by leveraging the title of three consecutive games, the team boss will maintain the championship team with huge luxury taxes. However, now the game is bleak and next season may still have to accept the huge loss of combat power without Tatum, and it may become a high probability of demolition of the team.

After the game, some comments from the coach and players were also considered as the team's dispersal declaration.

coach Mazula said, "Training you is the glory of my life, and so is the future."

, and Porzingis said, "My Celtics' career is difficult to define as failure because they have won the championship."

The Celtics in the 25-26 season had to pay 231 million yuan in salary (including first-round pick wages) and 263 million yuan in luxury tax after losing Horford, Greg and Connet without making any signings.

"Thanks to the new version of the labor agreement" If they don't sell people, they will become the first team in NBA history to have extra-gross wages.

And if it does not change, next season is their third time to surpass the second rich line in five consecutive years. The team not only cannot use the middle class, cannot sign first and then exchange, cannot trade discounts, and cannot package players to change stars. The first round of the next seven years will be forcibly reduced to the end of the first round (if the promotion is over again the year after the next year, the first round of 2032 will be confiscated)

As early as before the start of the playoffs, the team's boss Grossbeck said that the current NBA does not allow any team to surpass the second rich line for three consecutive years.

In view of this, the dissolution of the Celtics is basically certain.

At present, Porzingis and Holiday are the two most likely to be sent away, but these two are not easy to trade.

Porzingis's attendance rate has been worrying in the past two years due to various physical problems. However, his three-point shooting percentage has further decreased his trading space. Although his contract is only 30.73 million a year, his positioning is indeed very embarrassing. With his strength, the team is not very stable as a mercenary for a year. The team pays money and sends it to garbage depends on whether any team accepts the "money payment" operation.

Holiday's problem is even more serious. When he renewed his contract with the team for 4 years and 135 million in April last year, this contract was actually a little premium. However, from the perspective of the top team, the basic value of Holiday Brother is only useful in the playoffs facing the top players' 1v1 defense and a few 1-2 key three-pointers. The strength of the Celtics is to accept his 56.5% real hit in the regular season and a rhythm of less than 100. If Tatum is lost next year, winning the championship will not be the actual goal of the Celtics. It would be a luxury to keep him a 35-year-old veteran, but it would be difficult to give out his three-year, 105 million contract.

Once Platinum and Holiday cannot be sent away, they can only touch Jaylen Brown (but his contract is also super big!!), or the bonus contract the team wanted to keep: such as Derek White or Prichard. The market conditions of the latter two will obviously attract a large number of teams' attention. Some experts have previously said that if the Celtics are forced to pay for money and survive, teams with salary space such as the Rockets, Nets, and Spurs will be the main takeovers. (Enjoy the picture below?)

This is the second rich line in the new labor contract to squeeze the top teams. Once you cannot win the championship, you must send away some high-quality chips for the team's future, instead of repairing and scrubbing for another year as before.

How to protect core combat power while avoiding labor contract fines, the operations of the Celtics will also become a model for other teams this year.

For teams such as the Rockets and the Thunder, this is also a problem that must be faced in the future.