This really was what everyone around the league has expected.
Dirk Nowitzki has said before he planned to stay in Dallas after his contract was up this season, he would come back and take a pay cut to help the team out.
Now Nowitzki said he plans to spend a few more years in Dallas, in an interview Sport1, as transcribed by the amazing Sportando site.
“It’s up to him, as long as he wants to he’ll be here,” Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban said recently before his Mavericks took on the Lakers. “Like I said earlier Dirk never played off athleticism; he plays off of heart, he plays off of brains, he plays off of technique. He’s a surgeon, he makes it into a science. He’s a student of the game and in a lot of respects that helps him, you’ll see he knows how to protect his body, which makes him look really awkward at times but he understands context.”
Then he joked about the end of Dirk’s career.
“No, it’s when I want (then he laughs), because owners win games, not players,” Cuban said.
These were Cuban’s earlier comments.
“It’s not like we were wowed by his athleticism or wowed with his speed,” Mark Cuban said recently before his Mavericks took on the Lakers. “Dirk is all about German precision. He’s like a surgeon out on the court, he knows how to play, he sees the game in slow motion and he knows what’s going to happen and he knows what he needs to do. And it’s that ability to know what he needs to do but also context that continues to make him special.”
The only questions left are for how long and how much, but that is going to be worked out.