Last night the two German big men from Wurzburg each had impactful dunks, but for completely different reasons.
Dirk Nowitzki lofted the ball over the rim in his first dunk of the season off of a dish from Kyle Collinsworth. The act itself wasn’t as impressive as the fact that a 39-year-old with over 50,000 NBA minutes of wear and tear on his body can still get up.
“I think the whole bench got up and cheered,” Kleber said when asked about the Dirk’s dunk. “It’s what we usually only see in warmups.