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Good. Let's see if Avery will finally trust him.
Hmmm...eggs firmly planted in that one basket, I guess.
Good. Let's see if Avery will finally trust him.
Now they should trade Jason Terry for a back-up point guard and a back-up power forward who actually plays the low block.
The Dallas Mavericks and point guard Devin Harris agreed to a five-year contract extension today. Harris, the fifth pick of the 2004 NBA Draft, has spent his entire three-year career with the Mavericks after being acquired from Washington in draft-day trade.
“I feel good about the commitment for another five years,” Harris said after a morning workout American Airlines Center practice court. “Hopefully now we can run with it.”
Harris averaged career highs last season in points (10.2), assists (3.7), rebounds (2.5), steals (1.2) and minutes (26.0). He also played in 80 games, with 61 starts, shot 49.2 percent from the field and 82.4 percent from the line – all career bests.
The five-year extension, which begins after this season, locks Harris up through 2012-13. Harris has played in a key role in the Mavericks reaching the 2005 NBA Finals and finishing with the NBA’s best record last season.
“Devin is a vital part of our core and has played a key role in our success,” Mavericks president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson said. “We are excited about his future in a Mavericks uniform.”
Harris looks to take his game to the next level going into his fourth season.
“I’m feeling refocused and refreshed,” he said. “I’ve been working on fine-tuning a lot of things. Of course you’re going to shoot 1,000 jumpers a day and I’ve also been working on going left. More than that I’m learning how to control the game better by watching a lot of film.”
Mavericks coach Avery Johnson has referred to Harris as his starting point guard and Harris is approaching the season with the same expectation. That doesn’t mean Harris is taking starting for granted.
“Nothing is given,” Harris said. “You have to come into camp ready to work hard. I don’t want anything to be given to me. I have that mindset and hopefully this will be the year for me.”
Harris is no stranger to the first team, having started 61 times last year. “I want that full 82,” he said.
is it the max?
I do like Harris and I think he's going to be solid, but to think back...
We don't keep Nash and wind up getting Dampier with that money, Then we trade Jamison to get the pick for Harris, and get Stackhouse as well.
Would you rather have Damp, Harris, & Stack or would you rather we still had Nash & Jamison?
Nash, Terry, Howard, Dirk, Diop with Jamison as 6th man would be a pretty salty lineup.
Either way, the Mavs are still in good shape currenty.
I thought i read somewhere that Jamison didn't like being the 6th man. It was either that or that he didn't want to be here.
I think he wanted to go back to being a starter, but he never made a stink about being 6th man.
Either way, we could have made Terry 6th man and move Howard to SG.
Howard doesn't have good enough handles to be a SG full time. I think we stick with the Harris, Terry, Howard, Nowitzki, Diop lineup. Maybe Damp if he is in shape.
You also have to remember that Diop was a bit of a surprise, and that he wasnt picked up untill 2005-2006, so at the time the only 5 we would have had was Bradley
how much did he sign for?
Resigning Jet last summer might come back to really bite this team in the ass. We will get raped with that backourt of Jet and Harris. But then if we move Jet to the bench, he might get pissed off plus we are paying a guy that much cash to be a backup pg. Eh. Decisions decisions.
We need them both. Harris and Terry make it so we have a good point guard for 48 minutes and save the wear and tear one of them would have to endure.
Thing is we cant afford to use them both night in and night out. Bigger and stronger backcourts are going to destroy it.
Nah man. They hardly do that. If they did than we just throw Eddie Jones or Devean George out there. It is usually a problem for the other team to deal with a quicker lineup like that. We can change lineup depending on the matchup.
Jet would make the perfect 6th man/Bobby Jackson type.
I really wish they'd give Ager more of a shot.
Please stop with the if we had Nash.... first off we wouldnt have traded for Terry, and Jamison didnt want to keep playing 6th man, and we probably wouldnt have signed Diop. I think the Mavs have done just fine w/o his services
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....ca055365.html
Mavs sign Harris to five-year extension
08:22 PM CDT on Wednesday, September 12, 2007
By EDDIE SEFKO / The Dallas Morning News [email protected]
The Mavericks consider Devin Harris one of the cornerstones for their future. They proved that Wednesday by agreeing to a lucrative five-year contract extension with the 6-3 point guard.
Harris, entering his fourth season, will earn 3.99 million this season. According to a source, the extension will kick in for the 2008-09 season and is worth more than the five-year, $42.6 million deal Milwaukee point guard Mo Williams signed recently.
That would put Harris' salary around $8 million in the first year of the extension, presuming 10.5 percent raises through the life of the contract.
the kid is the only guy on the mavs crew who i don't despise. if he wants a ring, he shoulda went to a team that has a leader with heart though.
I hear the kings are gonna be awesome this year.
guess i hit a nerve stating the facts about your heart of a champion leader dirk, ay? it's all good.. i hear the mavs are destined for yet another fruitless season filled with choking and general heartbreak for mav fans. what's new though, right?
why? until this team does what it was built & expected to do - win a championship - then every move made should be under scrutiny.
Are you always this re ed or is it a Wednesday thing?
spursreport?
Terry blows
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