Skip to content  Cuban: Nowitzki opting out a good thing
for Mavericks  May 25, 2010, 10:05 AM EDT   Oh, some teams
likely will come a courting, but Nowitzki and the Mavericks are
already working on a max extension to his existing contract. If
he left he’d have to take a pay cut. And if you think Mark Cuban
is going to take pennies on the dollar back in a sign-and-trade
for Nowitzki, then you don’t know how he got to be a
billionaire. That would be a hard deal to strike.  In fact,
Cuban told he is happy Nowitzki may opt out.  1. “Dirk is
actually helping the team by opting out,” Cuban said.  2. An
opt-out “gives us the ability to create financial room to add
players,” he said.  3. That “financial room” is “not cap room,
just dollars we save in a new, but longer deal,” Cuban said.
Nowitzki has not taken action on this yet; he has until June 30
to officially decide to opt out of his final $21.5-million year
to become a Summer of 2010 free agent. If he does so, once that
window opens, he is a free agent on July