NEWS: Donnie Nelson sues Dallas Mavericks

[Jommybone]

Can I point one thing out about the "10 year extension!" response. 

Donnie already had a lifetime contract in place, the 10 year extension thing was Donnie's way of negotiating for a raise (he was set at 5 mil a year indefinitely).  So it's not like Cuban was like "lock this guy up because he's killing it!".

Your reasoning is solid, but you are putting too much faith in the literal words of the petition. 

In reality, Donnie had an at-will contract that Cuban called “lifetime” once in public as a metaphor for how happy he was with Donnie’s work. Donnie didn’t really have a lifetime contract, and stray comments like that don’t result in legally enforceable rights. There is no serious argument that Donnie had a lifetime contract.