At the appointed moment, Dirk Nowitzki and his 7-year-old son, Max, pulled a lever, which triggered the lifting of a mammoth cylindrical canvas. Several...
“I’m just happy for him,” Doncic said. “He deserves all these things that are happening to him. It was amazing. That statue looks amazing and he deserves it.”
The eyes of Nowitzki, 44, welled during a video explaining how the statue was made, when Amrany predicted that the work will exist for 500 years. Nowitzki’s entire 21-season career was spent as a Maverick. That remains an NBA record by anyone playing on only one team. “I just sat down and thought, ‘What do people associate with you here in Dallas?’"Nowitzki said. He boiled it down to his fade away jumper and his 21 seasons of loyalty.“It’s just a fun fact that it happens to be 21 letters; that was more luck than really designed,” he said. “I just wanted to think of something that people associate me with here and in my new home, and I felt it fit perfect.”“I think the 21 letters for what he [stood for] in his career, it’s just remarkable,” Kidd said.
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