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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of the last NBA season, Dirk&amp;nbsp;Nowitzki&amp;nbsp;told the Mavericks he would take a decrease in pay if it meant bringing in some top-end talent to help the team make a championship run, and the team used that extra financial space to bring in Chandler Parsons from the Houston Rockets.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the season about to begin,&amp;nbsp;Nowitzki&amp;nbsp;has revealed to reporters his plan for making up the lost pay throughout the season, one forkful at a time.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 Michael Jordan shows off his collection of Hornets-colored Air Jordans\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is tough for Parsons to argue with Dirk's logic on that one, although it is going to be pretty upsetting come January&amp;nbsp;when the former MVP insists on getting truffles and caviar yet again.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Brendan Maloy&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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