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Dirk Werner Nowitzki (German pronunciation: [ˈdɪʁk noˈvɪtski], audio ⓘ; born June 19, 1978) is a German former professional basketball player who is a special advisor for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). [1]
Dirk Nowitzki, pictured in 2008, was well-known for his outside shooting ability as a seven-footer. In basketball, a stretch four (sometimes called a stretch big) is a player at the power forward position that can shoot further from the basket than a conventional power forward. "Stretch" describes the effect that such a player has on the ...
Dirk Nowitzki is the longest-serving player in Mavericks history. The Dallas Mavericks are an American professional basketball team based in Dallas. They play in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team joined the NBA in 1980 as an expansion team [1] and won their first NBA ...
Dirk Nowitzki shoots his patented one-legged fadeaway over fellow legend Tim Duncan in Game 3 of their 2014 Western Conference second-round series at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
With Nash and Nowitzki, the Mavericks quickly went from a lottery team in the late 1990s to a perennial playoff contender throughout the 2000s. Nowitzki went on to win the 2011 NBA Finals with Dallas without Nash, but with Kidd. Meanwhile, the Raptors were a recent expansion team that had failed to win more than 30 games in its first three seasons.
The Mavericks honored Nowitzki's 21-year career in Dallas with an iconic statue.
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Dirk Nowitzki smiles as he peers at his statue during the “All Four One” statue ceremony in front of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Emil T. Lippe)