After reaching an agreement to sign DeAndre Jordan to a one-year deal using a significant chunk of their cap space, the Mavericks will likely use their remaining room to re-sign Dirk Nowitzki, tweets Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports.
According to Charania, that would result in a salary of about $5MM for Nowitzki, who initially had a $5MM team option on his contract for the 2018/19 season. The Mavs turned down that option in order to maximize their cap flexibility for the new league year.
While Nowitzki was always a lock to remain with Dallas, it wasn’t clear how exactly it would get done from a cap perspective. By using the rest of their cap space to sign Jordan and Nowitzki, the Mavs will retain their $4.4MM room exception for another player.
Nowitzki, who just turned 40 in June, remained a productive rotation member for the Mavericks in 2017/18, averaging 12.0 PPG and 5.7 RPG with a .456/.409/.898 shooting line in 77 games (all starts). The Mavs are hoping to get him back to the playoffs once more before he retires, having made a couple big splashes so far this summer — before reaching a deal with Jordan, Dallas traded up to No. 3 in the draft to nab Luka Doncic.
Interesting to see what Jordan does in Dallas? I can see him going to the Rockets in the future. He is a Houston native.
Also interesting to see what role Dirk has with the Mavs after he retires. I won’t be surprised to see him in an official capacity with the Mavs for a long time
I have never seen a star player give as much to his team as Dirk. I think Cuban owes him quite a bit. I have never seen a super star take so many pay cuts for the benefit of the team. What if Kobe had done that?
I can see Cuban signing Dirk to a contract to a front office position with a very high price tag to pay him back for the years he took a cut in salary.
No way the addition of DJ takes them to the playoffs, maybe DMC with JR could, but DJ alone no way, & that isn’t the only disappointment, even worst they run out of cap space to take bad contracts so they could acquire assets for the future, all been done & said, I think this is the worst move Dallas could have done.
I can see Cuban signing Dirk to a contract to a front office position with a very high price tag to pay him back for the years he took a cut in salary.
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