During a podcast appearance, NBA star and Dallas Mavericks legend revealed that he thought Luka Doncic couldn’t be the face of the team
Last Thursday, 30th, the star of NBA and idol of Dallas Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzkiparticipated in the podcast “All The Smoke”, by Matt Barnes It is Stephen Jackson. During the program, the German revealed that there were “many doubts” about the Slovenian shipowner Luka Doncic when the player arrived at the franchise Texasin 2018.
“The end of my career was not very good. We were (Mavericks) in bad shape. There were some conversations about tanking (losing on purpose) going on. We needed a spark to change things. I didn’t think it was this kid (Doncic)… When he first walked into the training facility, he looked like a big guy, but I was, like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to work out. Is he fast enough? Is he athletic enough to run into guys like he did in Europe? There were several doubts from everyone on the team”said the German, who was champion with the team in 2011.
Luka Doncic and Dirk Nowitzki were present at the Texas Rangers game!!
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Dirk also talked about how he doesn’t consider himself a mentor to the Slovenian. “’Mentor’ would be a bit much, because he didn’t really need me. As you can see, he plays like a 32-year-old veteran. How he reads the game, how he carries himself on the court… I would love to say that I helped him and talked to him about it, but he was a professional since he was, I don’t know, 11 years old.”he completed.
Source: sportbuzz
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