Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki makes an interesting revelation - NBA Update
Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki is perhaps the best power forward in the league and surely the best foreign player the league has ever seen. Despite his hard work for almost seventeen years, the German sharp-shooter had never managed to win NBA champion.
However, it all changed last season, after he led the Dallas Mavericks to their first ever NBA championship. With that, Dirk achieved everything in NBA, so the question that kept troubling him throughout the extended off season was “what next now?”
Dirk had lost the drive, the hunger and therefore, has also struggled at the start of this shortened season. Recently, in an interview to Sports Illustrated, Dirk admitted the fact that he completely lost the drive to do more after winning the championship.
“I know one thing changed, and that was my motivation was gone for a little bit,” Nowitzki went on. “And I really had to fight to get it back and get the fun back.”
This season, for the first time in his career, Dirk looked offbeat at the start of a season, and although the lack of drive had much to do with it, it was also that he was still in a partying mode. Nowitzki didn't have any time to celebrate and cherish his biggest basketballing achievement.
Soon after the NBA win, he rushed to Germany to represent his country in the European Championship and after he returned, there were no facilities available for him to practice on as the NBA was in a lockout. When the season did get a go-ahead, he had not time to conduct his usual training regime and it was because of the lack of conditioning that the Mavs decided to rest for nearly two weeks.
However, he still prefers playing the game.
“Now I reached both goals, and it was just hard in the beginning,” he said. “The Euros came too quick, right after the [NBA] championship. I only had, like, a month off. I needed more time to get away and enjoy the championship. If I would have had a couple months off to enjoy it, party, get everything out of the way, then start slowly back up — that would have been the way to go. But I decided to play”.
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