[ESPN NBA Guru] Stein: Dirk has his say

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Nelson has big plans for NowitzkiSteve Nash's departure ranks as the biggest free-agent defection in Mavericks history. Erick Dampier's subsequent arrival, via sign-and-trade, will be recorded as the first time in the quarter-century existence of the franchise that a marquee free agent has chosen to come to Dallas.What does it all mean?For the conventional among us, reading between the bookends of the latest roller-coaster summer for the Cubanistas leads to a fairly straight-forward synopsis: Nash was essentially...

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