When the Mavericks traded for Dirk Nowitzki on the night of the 1998 NBA Draft, they knew they were getting a special player. The seven-foot German had a jumper unlike anything the basketball world had seen from a big-man. The first six-years of Nowitzki’s career were exciting, but the Mavericks never made it past the Western Conference Finals. Even rosters that consisted of talents like Micheal Finley, Steve Nash and Cedric Cebellaos were not enough to get them into the Finals. With the Mavericks failing to resign Steve Nash in the summer of 2004, the team desperately needed another source of scoring to compete for a championship.
The tremendous duo of Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry
