If you ask any Dallas Mavericks fan or basketball fan for that matter who the greatest player in team history is, you will likely only receive one answer.
Power forward Dirk Nowitzki.
The seven-foot German was vital in Dallas’ 2011 NBA championship, and even after his retirement in 2019, still held a close bond with the city of Dallas, despite rumors that emerged after the fallout of the Luka Doncic trade that said otherwise.
And the Mavericks are again going to honor the Hall of Famer in a new way coming up.
Mavs to Dedicate Basketball Court in Nowitzki’s Hometown in His Honor
Tuesday, the team announced that they would be planning to dedicate a basketball court in Nowitzki’s hometown of Wurzburg, Germany, in his honor.
In addition to the court, the Mavericks have renamed a street in Dallas near the American Airlines Center after Nowitzki, and also retired his No. 41 jersey, and also had a statue made of the former MVP, and he is now forever enshrined in front of the AAC posed in his famous turnaround, one-leg fadeaway shot that earned him many of his 31,560 career points.
Nowitzki’s resume includes 14 NBA All-Star selections, the 2007 NBA MVP, 2011 NBA champion and Finals MVP, and his 21 seasons with the Mavs are the most that a player has spent with a single franchise, going to show how loyal the legend was to his team, which makes him all the more deserving of his honors from the Mavericks.
