The three giants completely disintegrated, and the luxury tax dropped from 176 million to 0! Suns trade Durant and buy out Bill

According to reports, Bill has officially reached a buyout agreement with the Suns and will join the Clippers after the clarification period is over. It is worth mentioning that Bill and Suns originally had a maximum salary contract of $110 million for two years, with an average annual salary of $55 million. In the buyout agreement, Bill only gave up $13.8 million of it and was able to get nearly $100 million from the Suns. Before

When the Bucks cut Lillard, they used extended payment terms to pay his remaining contract of more than $100 million in five years, giving more than $20 million a year. Bill's buyout contract also uses extended payment terms. The Suns will pay Bill $19.38 million a year for five years until the 29-30 season.

After being bought out by the sun, Bill's Sun career ended. Bill joined the Suns in the summer of 2023 through a three-party deal. At that time, the Wizards traded Bill to the Suns and obtained Paul, Shamet, five future second-round picks, four future first-round picks swap rights, No. 7 pick from the Pacers, and some cash. The Suns got Bill, Goodwin, Isaiah Todd, and the Pacers got No. 8 pick Jares Walker and two second round picks.

Now looking back, the Suns traded to Bill, Durant and Booker to form a three-big group, which was undoubtedly a very failure, and the Suns also paid a huge price for it. Of course, this is not because Bill is not strong, but because his salary is too high and takes up too much salary space, which makes the Suns unable to further strengthen.

If the Sun had not traded to Bill, but kept Paul, he would probably not have fallen into his current situation. Bill played for two seasons with the Suns, playing in a total of 106 regular season games, averaging 17.6 points, 3.8 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 1 steal per game, with a shooting percentage of 50.5%. Bill's performance is not too bad, but he is indeed not worthy of his maximum salary contract, which is also because the three Suns are not suitable.

It is worth mentioning that after buying out Bill, the three Suns Big Three also completely disintegrated. The Suns had traded Durant to the Rockets in exchange for Jaylen Green and Dillon, and then reached a two-year, $145 million maximum salary renewal with Booker, which means that they will continue to use Booker as the team's core in the future, just like before Durant and Bill were traded.

The Suns' salary pressure was greatly alleviated by trading Durant and buying out Bill by extending payment terms. Originally, their luxury tax would be as high as $176 million in the new season, but in this way, the luxury tax would be reduced to 0. Although there is no need to pay luxury taxes, the Suns' strength has also declined significantly, and it will be difficult to enter the playoffs next season.