Donuts: Is Mavs' Nowitzki The Decade's Best?

Mike Fisher -- DB.com

Ranking Dirk among the power forwards of the decade ... the Most Important Mav You've Never Heard Of ... A Jason Terry song that I'm apparently too old to "get'' ... It's fine dining on Mavs information with Thursday Morning Donuts! 

   DONUT 1: Meet Wayne Winston. The Most Important Mavs Employee You’ve Never Heard Of. 

   DONUT 2: Half of the Lakers players have their own personal publicists? Training camp is all about the Kardashians, Artest’s album and Mrs. Kobe’s fashion career?

    Before we laugh too hard, remember that this sounds a lot like the 90’s Cowboys. And if you are talented enough and if you are used to it all, it needn’t be a distraction. In fact, if you are good enough – and the Lakers are, right? – it’s actually a helluva lot of fun.

   DONUT 3: A pair of SMU legends: Quinton Ross … and Eddie Sefko. 

   DONUT 4: According to Eddie Sefko and according to Mark Cuban, one of the reasons Dallas signed Quinton Ross is his past success against Carmelo Anthony.

   DONUT 5: Who is the greatest power forward of the decade? Let the arguments – which include not but TWO Mavs – begin …

   DONUT 6: Sefko expands on my note from yesterday on whether Roddy is for real.

   DONUT 7: Check out SLAM and ponder whether everybody is more muscular than they were a year ago.
  DONUT 8: Dirk on the subject of his contract, which expires next summer: "I still haven't really thought about it that much. I always said I wanted to finish my career in Dallas and nothing that happened the last two years has changed that. As far as I'm concerned, I'm thinking about playing this contract to the end and we'll go from there. We all know, in this business, things can change in a heartbeat. But as of now, I don't plan on opting out. I plan on finishing my career in Dallas."

   Translation: He HAS thought about it. And while things do "change in a heartbeat'' in pro sports, Nowitzki wants Dirk-in-Dallas to not change.

    DONUT 9: A Jason Terry song? I don't want to make anybody mad, but is this, like, professionally produced? Or is it just a couple of guys singing into a tape recorder?

    DONUT 10: Don’t forget, for the best in hard-core Cowboys coverage, your place – and my place – is Blogging The Boys. My Wednesday FISH on FOOTBALL stuff is up ... with a Thursday report to come … Take a visit …

    DONUT 11: With all due respect to the (I assume) expensive study and the ensuing front-page story on the NY Times detailing how the brain-rattling hits absorbed by NFL players can lead to dementia … I already knew that without the expensive study.

    DONUT 12: I’ve said this before over the years (starting with Leon Lett and Thanksgiving) and I’ll say it again: It’s a smart athlete who makes himself accessible in tough times, because when he does, the tough times fade as a water-cooler issue. Good on Dirk, therefore, for handling the "Broken Cristal'' story on Monday, complete with sincerity, feeling and humor.

   And guess what? If you've noticed ... by confronting it, Dirk's made the story go away.

    DONUT 13: The NBA’s new Twitter rules. As long as it restricts players but doesn't restrict the likes of Followill, Steiny Mo, Stevallica, Gina Miller, MCuban and a certain twitter.com/fishsports, I'm fine with it.