Instead, they're stuck a 32 year old Jose Calderon for 4 years and several million dollars. Their rentals have gone to the Lakers (Kaman) and Clippers (Collison) respectively, among others.
Mark Cuban is once again left shaking his head.
The trouble with the Mavs is that they seem to be in denial about the fact that Nash, Finley, Nowitzki, and Van Exel of. 2002 are not walking out of the locker room together in blue and white anytime soon. It just isn't happening. Mark Cuban's franchise cornerstone is now 35 with a bum ankle, and Shawn Matrix is a shadow of his former self. There are holes in the roster and no plugs to fill it.
I wouldn't go to Big D if I were a star chasing a ring. Dallas has slowly become the place where over the hill vets (Elton Brand, Eddie Jones, Kevin Willis, and the list goes on), go to collect paychecks and die. The victim in all this is Dirk, a class act and a picture of commitment who, in a white bread world, would not trade in his number 41 until the time to hang up his Nikes cometh.
Dirk certainly has something left in the tank, and is likely going to have yet another productive year. But to do so on a team that might once again miss the postseason bus? I don't know.
It might be time to set the big German free so that he can cement his legacy as not only the best European player to ever lace it up in the NBA, but also as a multiple time champion. He at least deserves a chance at more airtime on top.
So goes Dallas' D-lemma.
Talk about a play with words. This is no game though. This is serious, serious, business.
MC
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