Dallas will unveil their statue of franchise legend Dirk Nowitzki on Christmas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Mavericks will host the Los Angeles Lakers for a holiday. As the face of the franchise\u2019s cherished history since 1998, Nowitzki will never be forgotten for leading Dallas to an NBA Championship in 2011. The championship victory came in six games against the star-studded Miami Heatles led by LeBron James<\/a>, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2011 Finals MVP was pleased to hear he will be getting a statue built after him on the global holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s going to be there forever,\u201d Nowitzki said per NBA.com<\/a>. \u201cI think that\u2019s what\u2019s so unbelievable, that this statue will stand there, and my kids will grow up with it. That\u2019s what\u2019s really mindboggling and so amazing about it \u2013\u00a0 That this piece is for really for eternity and will be there long, long after I\u2019m gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n During his time with the Mavericks, Nowitzki solidified himself as an NBA legend and a building bridge between the inspiration the Dream Team created during their Gold Medal campaign in the 1992 Olympics. Nowitzki saw what Team USA did, and his success paved the way for more international players to cross the world and become NBA stars, like former teammate Luka Doncic<\/a> or Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When talking about his impact on the game in this aspect, the former superstar admitted it is a humbling feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAlong the way, if I inspired somebody to pick up a basketball or if I motivated a guy to work harder or dream of the NBA, of course, that\u2019s humbling to me,\u201d said Nowitzki. \u201cSuper humbling. That makes me proud, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dallas will unveil their statue of franchise legend Dirk Nowitzki on Christmas. The Mavericks will host the Los Angeles Lakers for a holiday. As the face of the franchise\u2019s cherished history since 1998, Nowitzki will never be forgotten for leading Dallas to an NBA Championship in 2011. The championship victory came in six games against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":769039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62699,18,63826,62493],"tags":[106,207,149],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-769036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dallas-mavericks","category-nba","category-news","category-newswire","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-los-angeles-lakers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769045,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769036\/revisions\/769045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769036"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=769036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}