Young Dirk Nowitzki playing for his school team - Very rare footage

Watch "The Dirkster" when he was still a teen with basketball talent playing with his high school basketball team (resp. the German equivalent). Not sure when the video was shot and how old Dirk was exactly, but I assume Nowitzki was roughly 15 or 16 years old at that time.

... and now watch Dirk Nowitzki several years later at the eventual peak of his basketball career:

Here is an analyses of Nowitzki's unstoppable fade-away jumper:
great-basketball-videos.blogspot.com/2011/06/dirkster-science-video-analysis-of-dirk.html

And here are the highlights of the last game (game 6) of the 2011 NBA finals in which Dirk and the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat:
http://great-basketball-videos.blogspot.com/2011/06/mavs-beat-heat-game-6-highlights.html

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