Rick Carlisle Comments on Dirk Nowitzki’s Future with Mavericks

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Dirk Nowitzki leaving the Dallas Mavericks would be a long shot, but that won’t stop Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle from doing everything he can to make sure the face of the franchise doesn’t depart.

Nowitzki has a player option in his contract, which he has said he intends to pick up in the offseason to continue his career with the only NBA team he’s played for, but Carlisle will still do anything he can to keep Nowitzki in a Dallas jersey for the rest of his career.

“We’ve got to hope that this isn’t Dirk’s last game as a Maverick,” Carlisle said after Monday’s 118-104 season-ending loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder, per James Herbert of CBS Sports. “I’m ready to get on a plane and go to Germany and recruit him to be back. But I don’t think we can take that for granted. We got to give him that kind of respect.”

After losing to the Thunder in five games, the Mavericks were eliminated …

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