Colin Jones: I’m calling a technical foul on Grant Williams

YOU WON’T CATCH the team of tax and policy analysts at MassBudget drawing up out-of-bounds plays or a new defense for the Celtics. You can imagine our surprise then to see an NBA player make uninformed statements about tax policy, such as those made by Grant Williams upon his signing with the Dallas Mavericks this week. His comments seemed to suggest taxes on his millionaire income, not the ups and downs of the NBA, were behind his departure from the Bay State.

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