Essentially, if you've got an owner who doesn't mind paying the luxury tax, it's always advantageous to be over the cap with a lot of contracts in the $4-$9m range, because those players are tradeable assets when their contracts are about to expire. I believe, even more so, with the leveling of salaries that we're now seeing, than are contracts >$10m like NVE's. The problem with contracts of that size, even when they're about to expire, is finding a taker that can give you decent value in return for the cap space you're giving him, without giving you too many players.
Of course.. Cuban's free spending attitude seemed to go away this summer.. which kinda puts the whole philosophy in danger. In principle, it works. But you have to be willing to go and pay for a Redd, or a Harpring, and you CAN'T outbid yourself for Raef or anybody else.
Don't count Cuban out, though.. he's made very accurate financial prognostications thus far. He may forsee a change in the salary landscape that we haven't thought about yet.
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