The Brooklyn Nets had to buy out Deron Williams, but that doesn't mean they're in better basketball shape for the upcoming season with him gone.
The decision to let Williams go was purely a monetary one. General manager Billy King said as such over the weekend.
"We wouldn't have done this if we didn't get under the tax," he said. "It wasn't a mandate. It was just something that I felt, the goal. If we're not going to be championship level, there's no need to be a taxpayer."
With the team under the tax line for the upcoming season, Brooklyn doesn't have to worry about paying the dreaded repeater tax in the near future.