Dirk Nowitzki will return to the Dallas Mavericks for a 20th season, as the sides have agreed to a two-year contract, according to the team.
ESPN's Tim MacMahon first reported the deal was close.
MacMahon noted the length and added the deal is worth a total of $10 million, and it includes a team option as part of the second year.
The Mavericks declined Nowitzki's option for the 2017-18 season, but few expected the 13-time All-Star to leave Dallas this summer. ESPN.com's Marc Stein reported in June the team preferred to re-sign Nowitzki, with a source telling Stein the Mavs wanted to do "what Dirk wants."
Similarly, Nowitzki expressed a desire to remain with the Mavericks despite their 33-49 record, their fewest wins over an 82-game regular season since 1997-98.
"At the end of the day, I just can't imagine myself in a different uniform," he said in April, per the Associated Press' Schuyler Dixon (via NBA.com). "If we're rebuilding, then I'm the face of that."
He'll become the second player to play twenty seasons for the same team, with Kobe Bryant of course being the first. If he comes back for the second year of that deal, he'll obviously set a new record in that regard.