AROUND the NBA:

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BUT they instead tweak the tax penalties significantly to make the financial hill impossible for spending way more than X.

That´s what they thought after they tweaked the tax and introduced sharp repeater increases in 11/12. Turns out that with increased revenue and even richer owners that wasn´t the case. That´s actually what Cuban thought. He was happy with the changes. Got his ring by outspending the rest of the league in the 00s. And the new rules would stop others from doing the same.