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That was your conclusion from reading my post?  

Did you stop reading halfway through?  I went to the trouble of explaining the exact way they could use the entire $12.044mm and still be either $2mm or $1mm away from the tax line depending on the date Cisse gets cut.

Yes I read your entire post. Yes I very well understand the concept (even before reading it) that with the Klay buyout, they can now do things with room to stay under the tax line, including spend a full MLE remainder of about 12M. (I have written the same. So have many others. It's been fairly apparent from when we heard the reported 9.8M-ish discount as the number of the buyout.)

But you also appeared to be stating that because the Mavs had gone over the tax line before, with no compulsions and no good reason to do so, they might do so again, and that getting to a bit below the tax line isn't a stopper for them. (IOW, a move now that spends the MLE amount isn't necessarily a stopping point.)

Did I read that correctly? I thought I did, but you can speak for yourself. If I misunderstood, I apologize. I wasn't trying to misstate your words, but rather to respond to them. Please clarify.

But if I did understand you correctly, then I very much disagree. I really think the combo of Masai (a smarter POBO by a mile) and Dumont (who should have learned his lesson on consequences of such an action after being duped by Idiot Boy) would not entertain such things again, and the Mavs will have a healthy desire to work their payroll to keep from being taxpayers (until major necessity and major reward possibilities intersect).