Mavs Likely To Use Remaining Cap Room To Re-Sign Dirk Nowitzki

After reaching an agreement to sign DeAndre Jordan to a one-year deal using a significant chunk of their cap space, the Mavericks will likely use their remaining room to re-sign Dirk Nowitzki, tweets Shams Charania of Yahoo Sports.

According to Charania, that would result in a salary of about $5MM for Nowitzki, who initially had a $5MM team option on his contract for the 2018/19 season. The Mavs turned down that option in order to maximize their cap flexibility for the new league year.

While Nowitzki was always a lock to remain with Dallas, it wasn’t clear how exactly it would get done from a cap perspective. By using the rest of their cap space to sign Jordan and Nowitzki, the Mavs will retain their $4.4MM room exception for another player.

Nowitzki, who just turned 40 in June, remained a productive rotation member for the Mavericks in 2017/18, averaging 12.0 PPG and 5.7 RPG with a .456/.409/.898 shooting line in 77 games (all starts). The Mavs are hoping to get him back to the playoffs once more before he retires, having made a couple big splashes so far this summer — before reaching a deal with Jordan, Dallas traded up to No. 3 in the draft to nab Luka Doncic.

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