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Dirk not ready to embrace Michael Young’s path to family life

Nothing raises doubt or creates more suspicion than the guy who quits and says, “I really just want to spend more time with my family.”

That is the single biggest lie told in sports, entertainment or politics.

One of DFW’s most revered jocks this week basically announced that he’s not ready to utter that famous line when we were sure it was coming.

But Dirk Nowitzki is a man who means what he says, and he’s not ready to mean it. It looks as if he will sign a deal that will extend him for two more years, to 2019, when he is 40.