BTW Duncan has been taking paycuts and they have helped the Spurs immensely. Martin Brodeur took paycuts in a similar fashion and last I checked dude has three rings and wound up in the finals even at the very end of his career. Tom Brady falls into that category, too. Yeah, we're talking about three really dumb guys who didn't get anything out of it right there.

Dirk should have taken the Lakers' money as one last act of dicking them over a la Steve Nash. But I don't blame him for not doing it. He didn't want to get back pay for past success, he wanted to keep succeeding. It didn't work but the Mavs have been a lot more competitive than the team he would have gone to with their star milking every cent he could out of his hobbled twilight.