Mavs GOAT: The Legendary DIRK

[SportPsychMav]

Just thought he needs a tribute, memorial thread.

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https://streamable.com/tgqm4

[Mavsfan12]

[fifteenth]

The late, great...

Wait, Dirk isn't dead though!!!

[SleepingHero]

Dirk is love. Dirk is life. 

The Dallas Dirks.

[vg2011]

Been worried about the lack of Dirk references myself...

The great thing about Dirk's career, for me, was watching him grow up. From the shy guy who could barely speak the language to a legitimate all-time great.

The classic underdog with a career that was truely a hero's journey.

With Luka it's the opposite. Twenty years old and born with swag, success almost seems too easy.

There will never be another Dirk. Coming into the year I wondered if could ever be the same without him.

It can't. But for those of us that love the underdog there is still hope. Luka came in great but the team is still an overacheiving motley crew.

The narrative is different without the big German. But the story can still be inspiring. More Michael Jordan's journey to a title than Dirk's.

Nothing wrong with that.

Still miss the big goofy German though.

[BolsDamols]

[ClutchDirk]

https://youtu.be/l4ok5_TTBFk

[Mavsfan12]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1201189955600556032


Because this must be seen.  OMG.

[ItsGoTime]

https://youtu.be/l4ok5_TTBFk

"I miss it, I want to be with the guys." 


Please go mentor KP Dirk!

[fifteenth]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thering...marc-stein

[DrMav]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thering...marc-stein

Summary?

The podcast teaser asks about his destiny as a top 35 player all time, seems horribly low. I thought most would put him in at least around the top 20.

[Jannemann2]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thering...marc-stein

Good listen, really liked it! Had few hidden gems (at least for me). Like the story of Adam Harrington (in Dallas 2002/2003 as a player), got to know Dirk and Holger Geschwindner and trained with Holger when he played for Bamberg in Germany (2006/2007). Later, Adam became assistant coach for OKC and used some of Dirks and Holgers drills with Kevin Durant there. Nowadays he's with the Nets.

Both, Stein and Simmons, dropped a few sentences about the 2006 finals officiation  ... :-) and actually managed to talk about Dirk and Kevin Garnett briefly - but not in the way one might expect :-).

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Just thought he needs a tribute, memorial thread.

He's still on the court, isn't he ?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDwAYpRWkAAf7YZ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

[donzingis38]

To be honest, at first I was more of a Dirk fan than a Mavs fan since I have zero connection to Dallas. If he had gotten traded to another team, that'd be the one I root for.

I just love this man. So glad I chose the right player to root for. Tall skinny dude that could run really fast and shoot threes consistently. Never seen anything like it.

I talked about him so much around my friends. They even started rooting for him after watching him play. He's just that likable.

Dirk also made me very unique and different. I used to play a lot of pickup games and I'd be the only one wearing a Nowitzki jersey while most wore a Kobe, Iverson, Lebron jersey.

[fifteenth]

In the Book of Basketball podcast linked above:

Mark Stein: When it was the Mavs turn to pick Paul Pierce was available. They didn't think Paul Pierce would be available. Don Nelson himself looked at Donnie and said, "hey, I think we audible here and pick Pierce". Donnie said, "Nope, we are taking Nowitzki."

[ClutchDirk]

https://www.sportschau.de/weitere/basket...i-100.html

[LukTheShadow]

My favorite article about Dirk sailing on the wings of Texas, Dallas and The Mavericks over two decades. From Dirk personally. Thanks to FSSW.

The Defining Moments of Dirk

[ClutchDirk]

https://twitter.com/dmn_mavericks/status...0534684672

[Davevoid]

https://www.sportschau.de/weitere/basket...i-100.html

Wait, you're German as well?

Dirk has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (yeah, we love those compund nouns...), which could be translated as Federal Cross of Merit, mostly for all the charity work he's done through his foundation.
It was personally handed out by the German President, however just being a Finals MVP ain't gonna cut it, hehe.

Btw, my fellow German BB-Freunde, at 1:07 in the clip there might be a rare sighting of Nisan Mikagbatse, of all people...

[ClutchDirk]

https://www.sportschau.de/weitere/basket...i-100.html

Wait, you're German as well?

Dirk has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (yeah, we love those compund nouns...), which could be translated as Federal Cross of Merit, mostly for all the charity work he's done through his foundation.
It was personally handed out by the German President, however just being a Finals MVP ain't gonna cut it, hehe.

Btw, my fellow German BB-Freunde, at 1:07 in the clip there might be a rare sighting of Nisan Mikagbatse, of all people...

Nope I'm from Dallas...just any Dirk article in any language especially German I have Google Translate...happy to see Dirk get another award which he deserved...

[Benskix2]

There's a great Dirk mention in this Dame Lillard article on ESPN:

http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story?_...an-lillard&id=28072772&redirected=true

"But Dame Lillard operated as Dame Lillard. Be who you are where you are. Stay rooted. Make this work. Make it the best of itself. Bring the same thing, the same energy all the time. Ask him whom he was looking at this summer and Lillard won't talk to you about Leonard or Davis. He'll talk about Dirk Nowitzki, the Mavericks legend who led his team to a title in 2011 and retired after 21 years in Dallas.

"He just stayed with it," he'll say. "I respect what Dirk did. Like, I see that and I'm like, 'It'll be worth it. I know it was worth it for him,' you know what I'm saying? Like, he'll be forever, ever, ever respected in Dallas and in the league. So that's like what I see from myself."