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Panelists: Dale Hansen Sports anchor, WFAA-TV, Dallas Buck Harvey Sports columnist, San Antonio Express-NewsSweany: The San Antonio Spurs are the defending champs and have had the best record in the...
View ArticleThe Big D
When it comes to basketball in Dallas, Big D means Dirk.Dirk Nowitzki has been the Dallas Mavericks’ linchpin throughout the past decade. He’s the greatest player the team has ever had, and his...
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Will the Post-Lockout Dallas Mavericks Be Able To Defend Their Title?
This week NBA players can report to team facilities for the first time since July 1, though training camps and formal contract signings won’t start until December 9—assuming, as ESPN.com noted, that...
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Behind the Scenes at the Mavericks White House Visit
Don’t be fooled: the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House is remarkably small. As journalists squeezed through it Monday morning en route to President Obama’s meeting with the 2011 NBA...
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Sweeping Up After the Mavs
Well, Saturday night was not much fun for Mavericks fans. The Oklahoma City Thunder swept the defending NBA champs, 4-0, in the first round of the 2012 playoffs, leaving both the team and everyone who...
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Dirk Nowitzki Shakes It With the Avett Brothers
Dirk Nowitzki told the world that he was going to a show on Saturday. Goin to see my boys the avett bros live tonight. Fired up. Who is goin? — Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) June 2, 2012What he didn’t say...
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The Full Nowitzki
In the fall of last year, a documentary about Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki became an unlikely success in his home country of Germany, prompting Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who also co-owns a film...
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Now You Can Finally Show Your Mavs Fandom By Ordering A DirkWich
Texas! What is best in life? Apparently it is naming foodstuffs after athletes (and, in the case of Cowboys defensive end Taco Charlton, the reverse). It is a thing we like to do, because while we may...
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The Mavericks Now Have Their New Dirk Nowitzki–Steve Nash Combo
The Dallas Mavericks unexpectedly landed a superstar on Thursday, trading for the New York Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis. It was a masterful move by the Mavs, who capitalized on a recently-turned-sour...
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The Best Thing in Texas: The Clippers Gave Dirk Nowitzki a Standing Ovation
WHO: Dirk Nowitzki and Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers.WHAT: One of the classiest send-offs for a retiring legend we’ve ever seen.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Over the past two decades, Dirk Nowitzki...
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The Big Texas Sendoff for Dirk Nowitzki
Dirk Nowitzki’s preparations for the last home game of his 21-year NBA career involved more than the sprints and scrimmages and stretches on the trainer’s table that have been necessary all season to...
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Downtown Dallas Is About to Have a Street Named Nowitzki Way
Dirk Nowitzki’s end-of-career run through the NBA this spring was a rare chance for the entire league to pay homage to one of its all-time greats. From opposing coaches to fanbases who otherwise...
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The Dallas Mavericks Are Now Luka Doncic’s Team. Is He Ready?
Dirk Nowitzki thought about leaving Dallas after just a single season. It might seem like a lifetime ago now, but after a tough rookie year, the future Mavericks GOAT was still about a season away from...
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The Moments That Defined Texas Sports in 2019
It’s hard to believe it now, but less than a year ago, the Dallas Cowboys were capable of winning a playoff game. It was a simpler time: Dirk Nowitzki was still the active icon of the Dallas Mavericks,...
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Luka Dončić and Dirk Nowitzki Had a Moment Last Night
WHO: Current Dallas Mavericks All-Star Luka Dončić and retired fourteen-time Mavs All-Star Dirk Nowitzki.WHAT: A photo in which the torch appears to be fully and forever passed.WHY IT’S SO GREAT: Dirk...
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The One-Question Interview: Thomas Pletzinger
Dirk Nowitzki is indisputably one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He spent his entire 21-season career with the Dallas Mavericks, leading the team to its 2011 championship. How a kid...
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‘The Great Nowitzki’ Does Justice to Dirk’s Greatness
A freakish athlete deserves a different kind of book, something that goes against the grain of regionality or idolatry or repetitious recounting of this big game or that. Thomas Pletzinger’s The Great...
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Let’s Just Move This Year’s Basketball Hall of Fame Induction to Texas
WHAT: A Texas-sized induction ceremony for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.WHO: Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol, Becky Hammon, Tony Parker, and Gregg Popovich WHY IT’S SO GREAT: A handful of the...
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A Tall German Emerges as Hoops Superstar in Dallas. Sound Familiar?
A German basketball player with a remarkable, idiosyncratic playing style is doing something special in North Texas. And no, this isn’t a flashback—25 years after Dirk Nowitzki started building a...
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The Top Moments From a Very Texas Basketball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
WHO: Pau Gasol, Becky Hammon, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, and Gregg Popovich.WHAT: The 2023 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. WHY IT’S SO GREAT: When we learned earlier...
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