PLANO — As Maxi Kleber was minutes away from greeting nearly 200 kids Tuesday morning at the Plano Sports Authority, those kids began shouting: “Maxi! Maxi! Maxi!”
The chants got louder and louder as the Dallas Mavericks’ fifth-year power forward approached the throng of kids at the Mavs Academy Hoop Camp. Once the kids got quieter, Kleber began telling his story about growing up and playing basketball in Germany.
“I remember my time as a kid when we had summertime, no school, and we just did basketball,” Kleber told Mavs.com. “Me and my friends just had fun, and this kind of reminds me of that.