Nowitzki had previously stated multiple times that he planned to play out the remainder of his contract. If he had completed his contract, he would have earned $8.7 million. He might take a lower salary so the Mavericks will have more flexibility in the summer.
Nowitzki plans to have a meeting with Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and general manager Donnie Nelson in the next few weeks. They plan to discuss ways to improve the team.
Since they won an NBA championship in 2011, the Mavericks have been a seven or eight seed. They have won only a few playoff games. Nowitzki’s goal was to compete at the highest level in his last years with the team. He said in an interview on ESPN that he hopes the team will be able to compete at a high level.
Nowitzki said he is committed to spending the rest of his career with the Mavericks. He made the decision when they won the NBA championship in 2011. Nowitzki hopes to join Kobe Bryant and become only the second player to have a 20-year career with a single team. In order to do that, he will need to play two more seasons with the Mavericks.
Nowitzki is the sixth-highest scorer in NBA history. He led the Mavericks to the NBA playoffs 15 times between 2001 and 2016 and to their only championship in 2011. He is a 13-time All-Star and a 12-time All-NBA Team player. He is the first European player to start in an All-Star game and the first to be named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, an honor he won in 2007. Nowitzki is the first member of the Mavericks to be voted onto an All-NBA Team and holds several Mavericks franchise records.
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