The point is, for the moment, not inevitable...
Like you said, franchises wait for years just to have the chance to be real contenders.
For a team like S.A. not being contenders for many, many years would be unbearable...
Like Holt said, the team is in good financial shape...and that's normal since we've been in the play offs for a lot of years consecutively...making so a lot more money than teams out of play offs.
Well, this money, IMHO, can be used for a two/three year run at a le that is still posible with the current core of the big three plus some other valuable guys...we don't have to break the bank permanently, but for a limitae space of time...and the we can start re-building.
I mean, in conclusion, that an investment of 10/20 millions in salary + lux tax can be worth in case with this we have 10/20 more playoffs games...and, first of al, a chance to still be real contenders for 2/three years.