Dirk Nowitzki

Yeah, yeah.

My number seven is Dirk Nowitzki edits on TikTok.

I put it on her because I've been getting a lot of them lately, and they make me emotional every single time.

Because some fucking monster, the one I saw today, it was a highlight reel, but a slow one.

I got like three of them today.

Can't handle that shit.

I'm already tired and sleep deprived, and now you're going to wreck my emotions with Dirk Nowitzki edits? He's great.

I mean, truly one of the top five foreign basketball players to ever play the game.

We've talked about the Grizzlies, other team I mentioned in there, the Mavericks team that beat the Heat in year one of the Big Three era.

Also, they had Nowitzki, their second-best player.

Might have been Tyson Chandler, but Dirk's the best shooting big of all time.

So bottom line is what the Heat's trying to accomplish is historically so rare in this century.

Ultimately, he had to leave the game because of a cramp, and I want to talk about his playoff performance as well.

You know, I don't want to start bringing in the Dirk Mavs conversation when we're talking about heavy rings, because I think Dirk Nowitzki with the Mavs had to go through like eight different Hall of Famers.

Not quite to that extent, but it doesn't take anything away from this ring, not only being incredible for Milwaukee, their first in franchise history, but how heavy it's going to weigh on the fingers of these Brewers players.

for the teams that they had to face.

Wow.

Dirk Nowitzki.

Nowitzki, yeah.

21.

he cannot.

James, Dirk Nowitzki in his prime is going by you.

James in his prime,

elite athlete.

His squad isn't too overpowered.

As we scroll through the other names, I would say shout out to Dirk Nowitzki for being in the top half.

He's got some ballers alongside.

Kevin Durant and Steph Curry being back-to-back makes sense, I guess.

We know that.

And it is a battle of bigs.

Dirk Nowitzki, his team on paper looks deeper and better than Wilt's.

Vince Carter is here, Steve Nash, Luka.

And the first half, he only played seven minutes because he picked up a foul very early, jumping out on a three-point shooter, which we talked about.

And then he picked up two fouls in about 15 seconds, apart from each other to get go very quickly from two to three which few doesn't usually even let you keep playing when you have two he left him in after he picked up the second when he picked up the third one literally 15 seconds later and got yanked after that so two of five with four points in the first half of this game but then in the second half and you could kind of tell i think you can see especially in a game like this because that was up like around 30 to start the second half so they didn't need to like you know do any things to make sure they didn't lose the lead or anything it was more of like what do we want to establish early in the second half and it was pretty clear the game plan when the second half started was let's get let's get jobs and touches like let's get him the ball and he ends up finishing this game with 10 points on five of seven shooting so again he was two five in the first half so he finishes five of that doesn't make sense he must have been two four in the first half finished five of seven In this game five rebounds for him again he only had the three fouls so he didn't pick up anymore he only played seven minutes in the second half but he looks better and these were like easy paint touches like he wasn't you know throwing up any fancy like super acrobatic Dirk Nowitzki fadeaway jumpers or anything but he was.

getting good touches at the rim.

He was finding his spots.