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 Dirk Nowitzki Video Sees Germany Celebrate Nowitzki's First NBA Title
We may have been short-sighted when we said basically all of America was rooting against the Miami Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals. Turns out it stretches overseas, too. After Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks' 105-95 Game 6 clincher in the NBA Finals against the Heat on Sunday, the citizens of Wurzburg, Germany—Nowitzki's home town—took to the streets in celebration. I don't know German so I wasn't able to catch most of what they said, but I'm pretty sure there were chants of "M-V-P" filling the air, complete with the rocking of a midtown bus and some random guy jumping up and down on the bus and leading the cries. As praised as Nowitzki has been in the U.S. after winning his first NBA championship in 13 years, one can only imagine the headlines in Wurzburg, which are probably dubbing him some kind of god right about now. Nowitzki averaged 27.7 points on 48 percent shooting and 8.1 rebounds during this year's playoffs. He also shot 46 percent from beyond the arc and it was his fourth quarter-brilliance (62 points in six games) during the NBA Finals that solidified him as one of the game's greats. When all is said and done, there are quibbles about where Nowitzki ranks among the all-time greats, but one thing's for sure: he will go down as the greatest German to ever play the game and the best 7-foot shooter the NBA has ever known. And although Nowitzki left Germany 13 years ago to play in the NBA, we can still hear the cries from his native town after all these years. In Germany, it is Nowitzki who is "The King."
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