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Originally Posted by dude1394
I cannot wait to see it.
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me too - check out some of this info from the documentary
http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/...-crowd-germany
Negotiations to firm up the details about the film's U.S. release are in the final stages, but we can share a few highlights of the production in the interim:
• Finley on the close understanding between Nowitzki and Geschwindner: "Their relationship is a very unique one. It's like the Mad Scientist and Frankenstein. I can remember watching some of their workouts early in Dirk's career and I just didn't understand what they were doing [or] why they were doing it. But once you get to talk to Holger and Dirk and understand the importance of each move they do, each breathing technique they do, you understood."
• Nowitzki's wife, Jessica, on the same subject: "They sort of have this relationship where they understand each other without even talking to each other. ... We call it in Swedish telepathie. I don't know, maybe they have their own language."
• Geschwinder acknowledges, in response to criticism of his unconventional methods and his unflattering reputation in some corners as the "Einstein of basketball," that he has been referring to his office for years as the "Institute of Applied Nonsense" ... replete with business cards carrying that title.
• Nowitzki's former German Nike rep and close friend Ingo Sauer shares that one of Dirk's father Joerg's old handball trophies is displayed in a more prominent place in his parents' house than Dirk's 2007 MVP trophy.
• Dirk's mother, Helga, debuted for the German national women's basketball team in 1966 and tells the story about frequently keeping her son near the bench in a stroller while she was playing after his birth in June 1978.
• Former USC coach and Nike director of basketball George Raveling re-tells the old story of how Nowitzki ducked out of town right before a playoff game for his hometown Wurzburg X-Rays -- who were in the process of trying to qualify for Germany's top division -- to come to America in the spring of 1998 for the Nike Hoop Summit in San Antonio that ultimately cemented Nowitzki as an NBA lottery pick. Recalling how Dirk's mentor showed up at the Nowitzkis' home early in the morning to whisk him off to America, Joerg Nowitzki says: "That's Geschwindner for you."
• Don Nelson on Nowitzki's rookie season, laughing as he recalled shrugging off Dirk's concerns about his early NBA struggles and imitating the youngster's accent: "So he came to me and he said, 'Oh, I think I want to go home.' That was the most dramatic thing that happened that year."
• Cuban on buying the Mavericks from Ross Perot Jr. in January 2000: "There wasn't really a lot of negotiation. I wanted the team. This was during the Internet go-go bubble. And the funny behind-the-scenes fact is that there would be days when the stock price of our company [Broadcast.com] would go up 20 dollars [or] 30 dollars and that would pay for the whole price of the Mavericks. That's how crazy the stock market was. And so I really didn't negotiate. I said, 'How much you want for it?' [Perot] gave me a price -- $285 million -- and I said yes. And that was over."
• Dirk himself on why he has consistently refused more off-the-court opportunities as a brand endorser: "They'd be pulling me by the nose all summer."
• Joerg Nowitzki reveals that Dirk, after all of his NBA riches, still goes to his mother to get money when he's back home in Germany for the summer. "It's crazy," Joerg says, "but that's how it is."