The Dallas Mavericks have been arguably the NBA's busiest team this offseason.
They started off the league's silly season in June when they traded for Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton, kept it going in full force in July by prying Chandler Parsons from the Houston Rockets for a substantial sum (three years, $46 million) and have since capped things off by filling out the roster with the likes of Jameer Nelson, Richard Jefferson and Al-Farouq Aminu.
As nice as those moves may be, they're still little more than window dressing, albeit with fancier curtains than anything we've seen out of Metroplex since 2011. This team's fate still rests on the broad shoulders of Dirk Nowitzki, just as it has for more than a decade.
And it will continue to for at least another three years. According to ShamSports, Nowitzki will earn a total of $25 million through the end of the 2016-17—an incredible bargain for a player of his abilities.
Nowitzki showed last season that he could still handle the responsibility of a superstar. The giant German bounced back from an injury-riddled 2012-13 ca ...
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Article written by Josh Martin