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)