[irontoad]

OK, here's a Dirk quote from a Sefko article sometime in October:


Power forward

Dirk Nowitzki spent the summer working out in Germany, and everybody at Mavericks central believes he's primed for a big year. So does Nowitzki. "I'm not going to sit here and say it's my team," he says. "[But] I'm ready to take that responsibility. I want the ball."



But yet he's comfortable in the background now and not a front-runner?? I'm sure I'm making too much out of this, but just seems really strange to me.