The Dallas Mavericks are in advanced discussions with star forward Dirk Nowitzki on a new contract but are likely to hold off on finalizing deal terms until after the team's face-to-face meeting this week with Carmelo Anthony, according to sources close to the process. Sources told ESPN.com on Tuesday that the parties have mutually agreed to put off the finishing touches on their weeks-long negotiations until after the chance to make their recruiting pitch directly to Anthony, who ranks as Dallas' No. 1 free-agent target besides Nowitzki. The Mavericks and Nowitzki have been negotiating for some time, sources said, because the parties strongly contemplated hammering out a contract extension before June 30 -- such as the Memphis Grizzlies did with Zach Randolph -- to prevent the former NBA Finals MVP from even reaching the open market. But the Mavs and Nowitzki, sources said, ultimately decided to wait until after July 1 to maintain maximum flexibility for free-agent pursuits. Nowitzki, 36, has said countless times this season that he's prepared to take a significant pay cut from last season's $22.7 million in hopes of giving ample salary-cap spacefor the Mavericks to upgrade the roster around him. "Cubes (Mavs owner Mark Cuban) knows I don't want to go anywhere and he doesn't want me to go anywhere," Nowitzki recently told ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM. "We're guessing that will be over pretty quick and then we can focus on making this franchise even better. "This deal is not going to be about squeezing out the last dollar. We'll just have to wait and see what the years and the final number is, but I'm sure it will be respectable for both sides." The Mavericks, as ESPN.com reported last week, will entertain Anthony in Dallas on Wednesday afternoon after his morning visit to Houston. Anthony is in Chicago on Tuesday visiting the Bulls and is scheduled to meet with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday in L.A. 在經過7/1自由球員開視之後小牛與Dirk的多次討論之後 Dirk將會等到小牛與Melo面談完之後才會進行討論簽約的事宜 這樣能夠保持著最大的簽約空間與Melo會談 Melo現在跟Dirk同樣是No.1的自由球員目標 Cuban跟Dirk同時表示,我們都不想離開對方,雙方也將會談好互相尊重的一份合約 而Melo將會在美國時間禮拜三早上拜訪完火箭後,下午到達拉斯拜訪小牛 隨後會接著在禮拜四到達LA去拜訪湖人 --

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