http://tinyurl.com/ooqdnuu Dirk Nowitzki said all he was looking for was a little respect when it came to his free-agent contract. Nowitzki already was going to take a steep pay cut, but when he formally signed his new, three-year contract Tuesday, it was for even less than advertised. He was expected to get a deal worth about $30 million over the life of the contract. Instead, it’s closer to $25-million for three years, a further reduction that helped facilitate the Mavericks’ $46-million offer sheet that netted them Chandler Parsons. It may also help them funnel a couple extra dollars to Devin Harris and perhaps DeJuan Blair. Nowitzki will be the fourth-highest paid Maverick on this season’s roster – behind Parsons, Tyson Chandler and Monta Ellis. He’s doing it all in the name of rebuilding a title contender. Nowitzki quickly went to his Twitter account to simply say: “MFFL.” Mavs Fan For Life. The contract was made even more unique because an ESPN report said two teams – Houston and the Los Angeles Lakers – made near-maximum offers to Nowitzki early in free agency but he didn’t even give those teams an audience. And other teams inquired about Nowitzki, too. His heart never left Dallas. This is where it’s been since he got here in 1998. “You can count guys like Dirk on one or two fingers,” president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson said. “We’re so lucky to have him. He’ s a winner.” And is clearly willing to sacrifice in the name of winning. While it’s easy to look at the slightly more than $200-million Nowitzki has made from the Mavericks in his 16 seasons and say that it’s easy to give a hometown discount when you’ve hit the lottery to that extent. But he signed in 2010 for $80-million over four years. That was $16-million less than the maximum he could have received. Now, he’s signing for three years and $25-million, when he could have had an offer in the range of the Parsons offer sheet. No matter how you slice it, he values winning as the ultimate payoff, not squeezing every dollar out of Mark Cuban. A look at Dirk Nowitzki’s annual salary, according to basketballreference.com 1998-99-$1,472,640 1999-00-$1,583,040 2000-01-$1,693,560 2001-02-$2,157,595 2002-03-$10,067,750 2003-04-$11,326,219 2004-05-$12,584,688 2005-06-$13,843,156 2006-07-$15,101,625 2007-08-$16,360,094 2008-09-$18,077,904 2009-10-$19,795,714 2010-11-$17,278,618 2011-12-$19,092,873 2012-13-$20,907,128 2013-14-$22,721,381 Dirk簽下約25M/3年的合約 細節未透漏 早在2010年續約時Dirk就降了16M左右的薪資 這次談合約Dirk原可以要求一份15M/年的合約 不過他最後選擇降薪替球隊增加補強機會 --

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