Official Dirk is Great Thread

[SupraMav]

Originally Posted by LetsGoMavs

Sig worthy to say the least

Please tell me that is a T-shirt design!

[LetsGoMavs]

Originally Posted by SupraMav

Please tell me that is a T-shirt design!

It actually is, at least according to Skin who posted this on his twitter account, but unfortunately i have no idea where to buy one of those....

[b_o_r]

http://www.bild.de/sport/mehr-sport/...7984.bild.html

Jorg will be staying home. In 2006, he came over when the Mavs had a 2-0 lead and they proceeded to lose 4 straight after he arrived. That's kind of sad

[freddyo24]

I really hope that the Mavs win it this year.
Im a Lakers fan but I think Dirk is on a roll right now and deserves a championship. I also want Kidd to win it all too.

Here are some cool shirts. Check them out


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[Nowitzness81]

[CadBane]

SHOOTING STAR: Dallas star Dirk Nowitzki(notes) is shooting 52 percent from the floor, 52 percent from 3-point range and 93 percent from the foul line so far in the playoffs.

What makes those numbers look even better is the fact that he had similar ones in the 2010 postseason.

Nowitzki shot 55 percent from the field, 57 percent from beyond the arc and 95 percent from the foul line in Dallas’ six playoff games last year. He’s on pace to become the first player in the last 20 years to shoot at least 50 percent from the floor, 50 percent from 3-point range and 90 percent from the foul line in multiple postseasons.

[MaverickOutlaw]

41 is simply a beast.

[fluid.forty.one]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6609174

[dude1394]

From fish...funny comment about the trophy that no one wants.

In addition to 11X50, the Mavs have been in the WCF three times since 2002. They've won two Western Conference titles. (You can find the trophies uncarefully stashed by Dirk in an AAC janitor's closet somewhere.) They will now make their second Finals appearance in six years.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by fluid.forty.one

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6609174

Wow....loved that...thanks for the post...

[Budapest Maverick]

http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/48881/mt...new_bride.html

If true, congrats big guy. I have my doubts though, but it's good to see he's still with Jessica nonethless, she's a beautiful girl. Not african-american though.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Budapest Maverick

http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/48881/mt...new_bride.html

If true, congrats big guy. I have my doubts though, but it's good to see he's still with Jessica nonethless, she's a beautiful girl. Not african-american though.

African-American, Swiss-Chocolate - I don't see why race matters.

Love sees no color (especially when there's all that hotness in the way!)


Is this true though? Seems like a totally random source...

[Budapest Maverick]

Yeah, i agree with you 100%, i just felt the need to point out she's european, not american. Yeah, the source is really not the most reliable. I guess if it's true, we'll hear about it soon.

[Underdog]

Originally Posted by Budapest Maverick

Yeah, i agree with you 100%, i just felt the need to point out she's european, not american. Yeah, the source is really not the most reliable. I guess if it's true, we'll hear about it soon.

Oh, I agree - I was referring to the article's inclusion of race in the first place...

I dunno, maybe it's still taboo in Europe (?), but mixed-race marriages are common-place enough in America to not even warrant a discussion, especially amongst celebrities...

[jetron26]

watch live - Dallas Mavericks vs Miami Heat!!

click here: http://nba-livestream.blogspot.com

happy watching..

enjoy!

[mavs777]

update on playoff numbers plz

[GermanDunk]

Originally Posted by Underdog

I dunno, maybe it's still taboo in Europe (?), but mixed-race marriages are common-place enough in America to not even warrant a discussion, especially amongst celebrities...

It is not in metropols, but in rural areas and towns. Not because the players in the outback are racist or so. It´s because, they have never seen a black human live. But that depends on the region. 30 km south of where i grew up, there is lot´s of Army, so that´s no prob there, although it´s rural.

[EricaLubarsky]

Bill Russell - passed 4/19/11
Patrick Ewing - passed 5/2/11
Robert Parish - passed 5/2/11
Charles Barkley - passed 5/4/11
Sam Jones - passed 5/17/11
Clyde Drexler - passed 5/19/11
Reggie Miller - passed 5/19/11
James Worthy - passed 5/24/11
Julius Erving - passed 6/2/11
16th place-- 7 to Dennis Johnson
15th place-- 73 to Kevin McHale
14th place-- 498 to Wilt Chamberlain
13th place-- 514 to Elgin Baylor

not a bad group of guys to pass in this playoff run and top 15 is within reach with at least 3 games left

[mavs777]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mc22ess4Es

[b_o_r]

Dirk Nowitzki runs into steel pole after post-game interview
By
Brandon George / Reporter

bgeorge@dallasnews.com | Bio

12:14 AM on Fri., Jun. 3, 2011 | Permalink

MIAMI - Much was made about Dirk Nowitzki's torn tendon in his left middle finger coming into Game 2, but he almost came away with another injury following his post-game media session.

After addressing the media in an area that was squared off by black cloth, Nowitzki exited through the back and ran right into a steel pole with his head, letting out a loud, "Oh." He then addressed a swarm of German media members for about 10 minutes of more questions.

[dude1394]

https://twitter.com/wojyahoonba/stat...76154584227841
Nowitzki saves Mavs in epic comeback

MIAMI – Dirk Nowitzki(notes) was tired of everyone messing with his chance to be a champion, mistake upon mistake pushing him to the brink. What the bleep? What were you thinking? The Mavericks had come back too far and somehow Jason Terry(notes) had lost his man, lost his mind and nearly lost these NBA Finals. One more time, Nowitzki had to go clean up a Mavericks mess. One more time, salvation had to come out of his guts and guile, out of his genius.

Son of a bleep, Dirk Nowitzki blared in the final huddle of the final chance to save everyone on these Dallas Mavericks. These two had gone back the longest together, back to the ’06 Finals collapse to the Miami Heat, and Nowitzki would be damned to let this happen again. Soon, they were walking back to the floor in the fleeting seconds of Game 2, and the ball promised to go back to Dirk again, back where it belonged, back where winning and losing would be decided with the flick of his wrist.

“I’ve got your back,” Nowitzki muttered on the way to the floor.

Nowitzki had everyone’s now – Jason Terry and Jason Kidd(notes), Rick Carlisle and Mark Cuban. Maybe most of the nation wanted to see the so-called Three Kings of the Miami Heat met with resistance, a challenge, and yet they were left to witness Dwyane Wade(notes) and LeBron James(notes) dancing on these Dallas basketball graves for most of the game. Everyone else on these Mavericks seethed, but Nowitzki never noticed the Heat’s preening with a late 15-point lead.

Nowitzki doesn’t rely on emotion to galvanize and inspire his game, but the steely detachment that comes with tens of thousands of hours of shooting, the muscle memory of the biggest shots in the biggest moments. All his life, Nowitzki was the nice guy, the big lug that would forever come close and forever be remembered as one of the Hall of Fame players without the ultimate validation of victory.

Now, he had absorbed every blow from Wade and James, and he was still standing, still swinging in the final minutes. There were 24.5 seconds on the clock out of the timeout, and it ticked down until the ball found its way to Nowitzki. He was going to the rim, and going with absolute audacity. From right to left, he ripped the ball through the air, dribbled past Chris Bosh(notes), past flailing Heat arms and hands, and never hesitated to raise the ball into the left hand with a freshly torn tendon in its index finger. The ball dropped into the basket with 3.6 seconds left – his eighth and ninth straight points to end one of the most improbable, incredible and indelible comebacks in NBA Finals history.

Out of nowhere, out of a hellacious resolve, the scoreboard finally flickered: Dallas 95, Miami 93.

Suddenly, this is a series again. Suddenly, the Mavericks are alive. And maybe most of all, the Mavericks delivered the Heat something that no one else had in these playoffs: a punch in the mouth. The Heat had been constructing an invincibility about themselves, a deliberate and dominating disposition. This game had been so easy for the Heat. Wade had 36 points on a dizzying array of shots and devastating dunks, and this was the 2006 Finals all over again. Wade had his way, and Dirk threatened to become a prop on the Heat’s path to immortality.

So yes, Wade drilled a 3-pointer with a little more than seven minutes left to make it 88-73, and the Heat were so clearly intoxicated with hubris. And right there, within a whisper of the Mavericks’ bench, Wade and James preened and celebrated the scoreboard. The Mavericks were humiliated, humbled and suddenly angered. They called timeout, and Terry met eyes with Nowitzki in the huddle. “There’s no way we’re going out like this!” the little guard blurted over the din.

The Mavericks were getting danced upon and dunked on, and the scoreboard should’ve suggested that these Heat – and maybe this series – had become a runaway train. All around Carlisle these Mavericks finally gathered, and here’s what the coach would tell them: Remember the Oklahoma City game? Well, we came back from 15 points with four minutes left. Now, look up there, Carlisle said, nodding to the scoreboard. We’ve got seven minutes left. We’ve got extra time.

And so everything started with a stop on these Heat and another. James drove to the rim, had an easy layup and Nowitzki marveled simply, “He short-armed it.”

The Heat were a mess in the final minutes, transforming an aggressive, attacking offense into a tentative team trying to run the clock out. Wade had scored on an electric array of baskets, but James found himself running the shot clock down and tossing long, off balance 3-pointers at the buzzer.

Terry had been silent in this series, but suddenly started making shots. Kidd stopped turning the ball over. And Nowitzki was grabbing rebounds out of a tangle of bodies, and preparing himself for the final stunning minutes when he would score on a jump shot and layup to tie the game 90-90 and, finally, a long, sure 3-pointer with 26.7 seconds left. Now, it was 93-90 Mavericks, and the rollicking, rolling championship sway within the arena had been replaced with a stunned silence.


Nowitzki and the Mavericks celebrated their victory in Game 2 of the NBA Finals after Dwyane Wade missed a 3-pointer just before the final buzzer.
(NBAE/Getty Images)
Terry lost his man on the inbounds play, let Mario Chalmers(notes) drill a 3-pointer, and Nowitzki wanted to kill him. Just beat him to a bloody pulp. It’s hard to stay angry with the gregarious Terry, even with the stakes so high, and it wouldn’t be long until Nowitzki had honored his promise with that fabulous, fitting drive to redemption. Everyone on the floor expected the Heat to use the foul they had to give, but Bosh never did.

Nowitzki rolled to the rim, laid the ball on the glass and this turned into an epic ending, a forever game that changes everything about these Finals. Once more, this was the Heat celebrating too soon, too boisterously. The price paid wouldn’t come in perception, but a reality: They lost control of this series, lost home court and now must grind two of three victories in Dallas to return to Miami for Game 6 with a 3-2 series lead.

Once, the Mavericks were considered an easy out in tough times. They were short on toughness, on physicality, on resilience. Five years ago, they had the Heat down 2-0 and a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter of Game 3 before crumbling. Now, they keep coming and coming, all poise and persistence and perspective.

“We’ve got a lot of guys on their last legs,” Tyson Chandler(notes) said softly in the visiting locker room. A lot of last legs and last stands to be champions. Now, Nowitzki is on a hell-bent run to will these Mavericks to the finish line. Yes, Dirk could’ve strangled Terry in that final huddle for losing that Heat shooter in the corner, for forcing Nowitzki to thrust these Mavs on his back one more time and deliver one more booming drive to the rim, to redemption.

“I’ve got your back,” Nowitzki told him on his way back to the court, but he was speaking to everyone here. From Carlisle to Cuban, Kidd to Chandler, those big, broad shoulders can burden so much now. Ball in his hands, NBA Finals on the line, and suddenly there was no more dancing on the shores of Biscayne Bay, no more preening. Terry had been right about one thing: The Mavericks wouldn’t go that way, wouldn’t let these Finals turn into a coronation. Nowitzki hadn’t come to be a foil for the Heat’s stars, but the biggest and baddest closer in the gymnasium.

Out of nowhere, Nowitzki raised his arms in the stunned silence of American Airlines Arena on Thursday night. Out of Dirk Nowitzki’s guile, out of his genius, salvation belonged to the Dallas Mavericks. Damn right he had their backs.

[Nowitzness81]

I'VE GOT YOUR BACK

[Kirobaito]

That article Dude posted has an interesting point. In order for the Heat to keep this from going to a game 7 - and we all know Dirk doesn't lose game 7s - they have to win two out of three in Dallas.

[DirkFTW]

[mavspwnage]

Originally Posted by DirkFTW

Crawford looks pissed. lmao

[j0Shi]

With his performance yesterday, Dirk overtakes the "Clutch" Crown from LeBron James in this playoffs.

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/mia...n-the-playoffs

Haberstroh posted, that James is "outdoing anything we've seen in recent years."
I guess the same goes for Nowitzki now.

He went 4-5 in the Clutch last night with one three. James and Wade went 0-2 each.
Nowitzki now leads in FG%, eFG% and TS% among players who attempted 15 or more FGs this playoffs. He also leads the entire league in Clutch-Points in the playoffs with 49.

[badfish22]

From ST:
Dirk is a member of the 50-20-10 club, 50 or more wins, 20 or more points ger game, for 10 or more season.

Dirk has done it 11 times in a row. Anyone else?

[GhostFace]

mutha fukin Ghostface Drillah. so sick.

[GermanDunk]

Just found what we could use as next years pump up song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3aUD...eature=related

[Scott McGuire]

Someone... should make a montage of all of Dirk's killer shots over this postseason. Wow would I watch that every time right before the Finals games!!

[Nowitzness81]

Originally Posted by Scott McGuire

Someone... should make a montage of all of Dirk's killer shots over this postseason. Wow would I watch that every time right before the Finals games!!

If we win the Finals it will be done.

[GhostFace]

Originally Posted by fluid.forty.one

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6609174

Thanks for this, it was awesome to Dirk so chill'd back talking about the Heat intro. Fuck them all. #41, greatness.

Damn.. just finished watching 4th quarter again. Fucking Dirk, Jesus, so ice cold.

[CadBane]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6625400

[BGMaverick9]

http://www.mavsfastbreak.com/2011/06...play-in-focus/

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by BGMaverick9

http://www.mavsfastbreak.com/2011/06...play-in-focus/

Nice, very nice..

[dude1394]

---------------------------------------------
--- txfootballfan1000 wrote:
This is pretty dang good from db.com

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=268&f=2144&t=7569038

[dirno2000]

Not sure if this has been posted but here's Dirk vs. Bird graphically:

http://brendanlynch.net/multimedia/birddirk/index.html

[Dirkadirkastan]

Originally Posted by dirno2000

Not sure if this has been posted but here's Dirk vs. Bird graphically:

http://brendanlynch.net/multimedia/birddirk/index.html

The dip is obviously 2004.

[Lestat_1795]

Originally Posted by BGMaverick9

http://www.mavsfastbreak.com/2011/06...play-in-focus/

Thumbs up, good stuff.

[Zaknaf3in]

Originally Posted by dude1394

https://twitter.com/wojyahoonba/stat...76154584227841
Nowitzki saves Mavs in epic comeback

MIAMI – Dirk Nowitzki(notes) was tired of everyone messing with his chance to be a champion, mistake upon mistake pushing him to the brink. What the bleep? What were you thinking? The Mavericks had come back too far and somehow Jason Terry(notes) had lost his man, lost his mind and nearly lost these NBA Finals. One more time, Nowitzki had to go clean up a Mavericks mess. One more time, salvation had to come out of his guts and guile, out of his genius.

Son of a bleep, Dirk Nowitzki blared in the final huddle of the final chance to save everyone on these Dallas Mavericks. These two had gone back the longest together, back to the ’06 Finals collapse to the Miami Heat, and Nowitzki would be damned to let this happen again. Soon, they were walking back to the floor in the fleeting seconds of Game 2, and the ball promised to go back to Dirk again, back where it belonged, back where winning and losing would be decided with the flick of his wrist.

“I’ve got your back,” Nowitzki muttered on the way to the floor.

Nowitzki had everyone’s now – Jason Terry and Jason Kidd(notes), Rick Carlisle and Mark Cuban. Maybe most of the nation wanted to see the so-called Three Kings of the Miami Heat met with resistance, a challenge, and yet they were left to witness Dwyane Wade(notes) and LeBron James(notes) dancing on these Dallas basketball graves for most of the game. Everyone else on these Mavericks seethed, but Nowitzki never noticed the Heat’s preening with a late 15-point lead.

Nowitzki doesn’t rely on emotion to galvanize and inspire his game, but the steely detachment that comes with tens of thousands of hours of shooting, the muscle memory of the biggest shots in the biggest moments. All his life, Nowitzki was the nice guy, the big lug that would forever come close and forever be remembered as one of the Hall of Fame players without the ultimate validation of victory.

Now, he had absorbed every blow from Wade and James, and he was still standing, still swinging in the final minutes. There were 24.5 seconds on the clock out of the timeout, and it ticked down until the ball found its way to Nowitzki. He was going to the rim, and going with absolute audacity. From right to left, he ripped the ball through the air, dribbled past Chris Bosh(notes), past flailing Heat arms and hands, and never hesitated to raise the ball into the left hand with a freshly torn tendon in its index finger. The ball dropped into the basket with 3.6 seconds left – his eighth and ninth straight points to end one of the most improbable, incredible and indelible comebacks in NBA Finals history.

Out of nowhere, out of a hellacious resolve, the scoreboard finally flickered: Dallas 95, Miami 93.

Suddenly, this is a series again. Suddenly, the Mavericks are alive. And maybe most of all, the Mavericks delivered the Heat something that no one else had in these playoffs: a punch in the mouth. The Heat had been constructing an invincibility about themselves, a deliberate and dominating disposition. This game had been so easy for the Heat. Wade had 36 points on a dizzying array of shots and devastating dunks, and this was the 2006 Finals all over again. Wade had his way, and Dirk threatened to become a prop on the Heat’s path to immortality.

So yes, Wade drilled a 3-pointer with a little more than seven minutes left to make it 88-73, and the Heat were so clearly intoxicated with hubris. And right there, within a whisper of the Mavericks’ bench, Wade and James preened and celebrated the scoreboard. The Mavericks were humiliated, humbled and suddenly angered. They called timeout, and Terry met eyes with Nowitzki in the huddle. “There’s no way we’re going out like this!” the little guard blurted over the din.

The Mavericks were getting danced upon and dunked on, and the scoreboard should’ve suggested that these Heat – and maybe this series – had become a runaway train. All around Carlisle these Mavericks finally gathered, and here’s what the coach would tell them: Remember the Oklahoma City game? Well, we came back from 15 points with four minutes left. Now, look up there, Carlisle said, nodding to the scoreboard. We’ve got seven minutes left. We’ve got extra time.

And so everything started with a stop on these Heat and another. James drove to the rim, had an easy layup and Nowitzki marveled simply, “He short-armed it.”

The Heat were a mess in the final minutes, transforming an aggressive, attacking offense into a tentative team trying to run the clock out. Wade had scored on an electric array of baskets, but James found himself running the shot clock down and tossing long, off balance 3-pointers at the buzzer.

Terry had been silent in this series, but suddenly started making shots. Kidd stopped turning the ball over. And Nowitzki was grabbing rebounds out of a tangle of bodies, and preparing himself for the final stunning minutes when he would score on a jump shot and layup to tie the game 90-90 and, finally, a long, sure 3-pointer with 26.7 seconds left. Now, it was 93-90 Mavericks, and the rollicking, rolling championship sway within the arena had been replaced with a stunned silence.


Nowitzki and the Mavericks celebrated their victory in Game 2 of the NBA Finals after Dwyane Wade missed a 3-pointer just before the final buzzer.
(NBAE/Getty Images)
Terry lost his man on the inbounds play, let Mario Chalmers(notes) drill a 3-pointer, and Nowitzki wanted to kill him. Just beat him to a bloody pulp. It’s hard to stay angry with the gregarious Terry, even with the stakes so high, and it wouldn’t be long until Nowitzki had honored his promise with that fabulous, fitting drive to redemption. Everyone on the floor expected the Heat to use the foul they had to give, but Bosh never did.

Nowitzki rolled to the rim, laid the ball on the glass and this turned into an epic ending, a forever game that changes everything about these Finals. Once more, this was the Heat celebrating too soon, too boisterously. The price paid wouldn’t come in perception, but a reality: They lost control of this series, lost home court and now must grind two of three victories in Dallas to return to Miami for Game 6 with a 3-2 series lead.

Once, the Mavericks were considered an easy out in tough times. They were short on toughness, on physicality, on resilience. Five years ago, they had the Heat down 2-0 and a 13-point lead in the fourth quarter of Game 3 before crumbling. Now, they keep coming and coming, all poise and persistence and perspective.

“We’ve got a lot of guys on their last legs,” Tyson Chandler(notes) said softly in the visiting locker room. A lot of last legs and last stands to be champions. Now, Nowitzki is on a hell-bent run to will these Mavericks to the finish line. Yes, Dirk could’ve strangled Terry in that final huddle for losing that Heat shooter in the corner, for forcing Nowitzki to thrust these Mavs on his back one more time and deliver one more booming drive to the rim, to redemption.

“I’ve got your back,” Nowitzki told him on his way back to the court, but he was speaking to everyone here. From Carlisle to Cuban, Kidd to Chandler, those big, broad shoulders can burden so much now. Ball in his hands, NBA Finals on the line, and suddenly there was no more dancing on the shores of Biscayne Bay, no more preening. Terry had been right about one thing: The Mavericks wouldn’t go that way, wouldn’t let these Finals turn into a coronation. Nowitzki hadn’t come to be a foil for the Heat’s stars, but the biggest and baddest closer in the gymnasium.

Out of nowhere, Nowitzki raised his arms in the stunned silence of American Airlines Arena on Thursday night. Out of Dirk Nowitzki’s guile, out of his genius, salvation belonged to the Dallas Mavericks. Damn right he had their backs.

That was quite a good read, cheers!