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Adjusting to the daily grind, physical play and endless stream of hotel suites can be tough for any rookie in professional basketball. But when the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki first moved to the NBA four years ago, he faced more of a culture shock than most. Nowitzki, a seven-footer from Germany, couldn't play much defense (which earned him the nickname "Irk") and was briefly tagged, as many European imports are, a "soft" player who shies away from contact. He often found himself riding the bench, so he had lots of time to work on his English...
...proven he can handle himself on his own by now, but Commissioner David “Vince McMahon” Stern must enjoy having the seniors around while their bodies publicly deteriorate. The All-World Dallas Mavericks are my pick this year to finally dethrone the Lakers, unless Dirk Nowitzki gets injured from a hit to the head with a steel chair by a former teammate while the referee is not looking...
...Nowitzki's performance this year has vaulted him past the late Petrovic as the NBA's best-ever European import. But the Bavarian Bomber is fast becoming one of the NBA's best players, period. Maybe even a little like Mike...
...Sure, it's only basketball, but even Pat Buchanan would have traded for this guy. Seven feet tall but agile as a guard and armed with a silky shooting touch from all areas of the floor, Nowitzki made his first All-Star team this season at 23, has seemingly eradicated the last traces of basketball prejudice against European imports - that they were too soft to play the NBA's hard-knocks style, that they'd fade away at crunch time, that a lanky finesse players from places like Wurtzburg, Germany were never going to make an impact over the American...
...only Nowitzki. The Mavericks, perennial losers in recent years, have turned success story with a veritable UN of hoopsters assembled by deep-pocketed new owner Mark Cuban. Point guard Steve Nash, acquired in 1998 along with Nowitzki, is a Canadian citizen born in South Africa, center Wang Zhizhi - known as the Slinging Beijingian - is Chinese, and rounding out the roster is Eduardo Najera, from Mexico, and Tariq Abdul-Wahad from France...