In terms of winning percentage, the 2016-17 season will go down as the second-worst season in the Dirk Nowitzki Era (1998-present).
The worst season of the Nowitzki Era was the lockout-shortened 1998-99 season, when Dirk was a 20-year-old rookie, still years away from his status as the best international basketball player of all-time. That season Dirk averaged fewer than 10 points for the only time of his career (8.2), along with an abysmal 40.5 field goal percentage as Dallas won just 19 of its 50 games. They didn’t have a first-round selection in the 1999 NBA Draft to show for its losing efforts either.