http://tinyurl.com/a9eh9pv As the Mavericks recognize just how spoiled they’ve been for the last decade-plus of constant winning, Dirk Nowitzki has a strong message to anybody who may be getting the wrong impression. He will not quit. And by that, he means he’s not on the trading block, at least not as far as he’s concerned. He is looking forward to figuring out a way to pull the Mavericks out of their funk short term – and throwing his faith in owner Mark Cuban and president Donnie Nelson that a championship level team still can be rebuilt quickly in the longer term. “They have a great track record,” Nowitzki said. “Donnie and Cubes always pull a rabbit out of their hats most of the time where people said that wasn’ t possible and still found a way to make the franchise better. We took a gamble on Tyson (Chandler) two years ago when he’d basically been hurt for two years and didn’t play and we brought him in and he was a game-changer for us. You got to be lucky a little bit sometimes. And you got to go for it. Cubes and Donnie have always shown they go for it. We’ll have to wait and see. The trade deadline is still a couple weeks away, we’ll see if anything happens this year and if not, we’ll hang it all out there and see what happens this summer.” As for his attitude toward the team and being eight games under .500 with 48 to play, he said. “I’m looking at myself. I’m pushing, trying to get better and get to the point where I can take over games down the stretch. I’m sure we’ll win our fair share. I’ll keep pushing. That’s the only way I know. “I never quit. So I’m going to keep pushing to get back to where I was at the end of last year when my knee was right.” Nowitzki said any inference that he was open to a trade – he’s one of the few players in the league with a no-trade clause in his contract, meaning he has to OK any deal – is incorrect. He first alluded to possible trades for the team last week in Washington after the Mavericks beat the Wizards. “I never said I wanted to be traded,” he said. “I said what I’ve said numerous times. We tried to sign D-Will (Deron Williams) and didn’t, so you have two options. You either trade everybody and start over or you bring in a bunch of one-year deals, which we did, and try to be a player next summer and that’s what we went for and we’re going through that now with eight new guys. It’s a little ugly at times, but we got to fight through it.” Nowitzki complimented the Mavericks on improved competitiveness lately, but he said his injury that cost him the first 27 games of the season is the reason the team is fighting from such a deep hole. “It’s a lot of losing,” he said. “People are on the edge. The whole atmosphere is not fun to be around. But it’s not supposed to be when you’re losing. “I’m frustrated that I missed two months and I’m not quite there yet where I can close those games out, which I should. I’m just not quite there yet. When we put this team together in the off-season and we got Darren and got Kaman, we didn’t think I was going to miss two months. “If I was healthy all season, we would have won a couple more and be hopefully right around .500 and still be fighting for the eighth spot. So me missing two months kind of put us behind the 8-ball.” Dirk說他不會尋求交易 他任為球隊現在戰績不佳他有責任 他不會放棄會繼續拼下去 --

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