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STORM CENTER: Dallas can’t land big fish
So, even after all the pleading from the Dallas Mavericks, DeAndre Jordan decided to stay with the Los Angeles Clippers.
Jordan put the deep freeze on his own agent, and the Mavericks, en route to signing a four-year, $88 million contract with the Clippers.
The pact includes a player option for the fourth year.
Here’s an interesting tidbit about Jordan’s choice from Robert Raiola, a certified public accountant from New Jersey who works for the firm O’Connor/Davies.
Jordan will be paid $3.8 million more by the Clippers. However, due to California’s high income taxes, his Los Angeles deal actually works out to $1.7 million less in the long run.
It goes to show Jordan’s deal doesn’t make the most financial sense for him.
And this further continues a mystery for me: Why don’t big-time free agents land with the Mavericks?
For the record, let me say my favorite team happens to be the San Antonio Spurs, and they signed prized free agent LaMarcus Aldridge on Thursday.
However, I’m not going to rub this in the face of the Mavericks’ organization and their fans. That’s because I’m simply perplexed by the whole situation.
Dallas is widely considered one of the most glamorous cities in the National Basketball Association, especially with a top-notch homecourt with the American Airlines Center.
The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area had a population of 6,954,330 people as of July 1, 2014. That means the area has grown by more than 528,000 people since the 2010 United States census was taken.
The metropolitan economy is the sixth-largest overall in the United States, with a gross domestic product of $448 billion. Read more of this column in the weekend Bowie News.
Editor’s Note: The Storm Center column is the expressed written views of sports editor Eric Viccaro and not The Bowie News.
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex produces a gross domestic product of $448 billion on average. The city is quite affluent. Still, the Dallas Mavericks’ National Basketball Association franchise has difficulty luring free agents here. (Courtesy photo from wikipedia.org)
Bowie had six players play in the Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl football all-star game. For pictures from not just the football game, but the basketball and volleyball games as well that feature athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo, click here https://www.dotphoto.com/go.asp?l=bnews1&AID=6875584&T=1
Nocona is welcoming back Coach Sandy Langford, former coach and alumnus for the Lady Indians, as its new volleyball head coach.
Langford comes back to Nocona after spending the past 11 years leading the Glen Rose volleyball program.
Her circumstances with her family allowed her to jump at the opportunity once she became aware the position at Nocona was available.
“My youngest graduated and is playing football at Midwestern (State University),” Langford said. “All of our family is here and I knew that Coach Kara (Lucherk) was leaving. We were eventually going to retire here. Our oldest son plays college football at West Texas A&M and we’ll be two hours closer to him as well.”
She again will lead the Lady Indians volleyball program, one that she led all the way to the state title game in 2011, which is the farthest the volleyball program has ever gone in its prestigious history.
Langford kept up that level of success during her 11 years at the bigger 4A Glen Rose. She won less than 20 games only twice during her time, winning her 500th career game back in 2023. Her teams were ranked among the top 10 in the state five times and Langford led Glen Rose to the state tournament in 2017, the best finish in program history.
With the Lady Indians also having its own string of success, appearing in back-to-back regional finals while finishing atop the district standings both years, Langford is excited to not just keep the success going, but shoot for the stars.
“We are not expecting anything less than a state championship,” Langford said.
She has stacked the non-district schedule with strong, state-ranked 3A and 4A teams as well as big tournaments that will test Nocona’s mettle early next season in the hopes it will prepare them for a long playoff run.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the weekly edition of the Bowie News.
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