If you take a walk around the American Airlines Center, you’ll pass Dirk Nowitzki’s 24-foot-tall white bronze statue. “Loyalty never fades,” etched on it as his signature fadeaway move, stands eternalized. Despite retirement in 2019, Dirk continued to root for the Mavs in loud and silent cheers. However, the franchise upset the 47-year-old when they pushed Luka away in February 2025. He was angry, he was sad, and he was one of the first ones to reach out to him. And maybe, therefore, even when Nowitzki expressed his plans with Cooper Flagg recently, Doncic knew what he preferred.

The Slovenian Sensation has always looked up to his former Mavs teammate as a beacon of inspiration. They’re friends above all! So, now, during an online fan interaction on Bilibili, fans asked the 26-year-old Lo

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