text: you know he was but he just went for the the big bucks i think Dallas was going to pay him like sixteen million over five years and he got something like eighteen or nineteen million from Las Angeles so he just went where the bucks were and shoot you can 't blame him man that 's that 's a phenomenal amount of money but uh yeah the Mavericks are sucking it up i tell you
  
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  He decided to play for Los Angeles because they paid a few million more than Dallas .