Dirk Nowitzki never said he was retiring

It’s not even lunch time yet and here I’ve seen five different basketball websites aggregating Brad Townsend’s piece in the Dallas Morning News that Dirk Nowitzki hasn’t made a retirement decision yet.

If you read this site and other Dallas affiliated sites, you know this isn’t news. Sure, owner Mark Cuban went on the radio and indicated that Dirk was retiring, but after 20 years with Cubes, if you take everything he has to say as gospel, I have some land to sell you.

Look, it’s not Dirk’s fault that everyone is giving him the retirement tour treatment. The NBA placed him in the three point contest and the All-Star game, which was nice but also not a thing he sought out. He also did this in…