This trip marked the beginning of an extraordinary basketball career: in the summer of 1998 the 20-year-old Dirk Nowitzki (48) drove an old white VW Golf through Würzburg. In the passenger seat was Don Nelson, then coach of the Dallas Mavericks, while his son Donnie Nelson took a seat on the back bench. The delegation of the NBA club had travelled to Dirk's home country to meet the German basketball talent personally and convince him of a change…
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This trip marked the beginning of an extraordinary basketball career: in the summer of 1998 the 20-year-old Dirk Nowitzki (48) drove an old white VW Golf through Würzburg. In the passenger seat was Don Nelson, then coach of the Dallas Mavericks, while his son Donnie Nelson took a seat on the back bench. The delegation of the NBA club had travelled to Dirk's home country to meet the German basketball talent personally and convince him of a change…