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One other issue with the Powell idea is that the benefit to this is to manufacture cap room in certain years by sliding cap hits from one year to the next  -- almost 0 one year, and then 2 year's worth the next. But Powell's shouldn't be big enough to be that much of a difference maker. And do you want to have a double hit in a year when you are in the tax, maybe? And with giant contracts for both Luka and Kyrie, will you ever really have cap room years?

I mean if we're going by the OP idea, creating just enough cap room to allow us to use the full MLE and/or avoid hefty repeater tax penalties, then a double hit of Powell in year 2 would pay itself no? 

I know the NBA tends to look the other way on deals like this. Dirk got away with it just fine, was paid quite well in his twilight, and the NBA didn't have much to say. 

Still this would be a more egregious case, especially because Powell's JAG status in the league. If the Mavs tried this strategy and somehow got a big impact player hypothetically I can see the league investigating and attempting to close/enforce this loophole very quickly.