Dirk Nowitzki is a German former professional basketball player born June 19, 1978, in Wurzburg, who spent his entire 21 season NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks, one of the longest tenures with a single team in league history. He led the Mavericks to their first NBA championship in 2011, winning the Finals Most Valuable Player award, and won the regular season Most Valuable Player award in 2007. Standing over seven feet tall with an unusually versatile perimeter shooting game for a player his size, he is widely credited as a pioneer of the modern stretch-four style of play and is regarded as one of the greatest international players in NBA history, elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Career HighlightNBA Most Valuable Player in 2007 and NBA Finals MVP in 2011, led the Dallas Mavericks to the 2011 NBA championship 1 Classification
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born June 19, 1978
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is a German former professional basketball player
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Nowitzki won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in 2007 and the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in 2011
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Dirk Werner Nowitzki (German: [ˈdɪÊk noˈvɪtski] ; born June 19, 1978) is a German former professional basketball player who is a special advisor for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA), with whom he played his entire 21-year career as a power forward.
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