Waiver Wire: Rumor Mill

A few weeks ago, I was predicting a fairly quiet trade deadline.

Let's forget I said that.

It seems more and more teams will do anything in their power to avoid the league's new-and-improved luxury tax, which escalates a lot more quickly than the old version and which includes an additional charge – dubbed the “repeater tax” on teams that exceed the threshold for too many years in a row.

In retrospect, I should have seen this coming. Fear of the tax was a big reason the Thunder traded James Harden before the seaso

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