On January 6, 2022, the Lone Rangers held a jersey retirement ceremony for the first legend in their team history, Nowitzki, and there has been no old driver since then.
Originally a slightly sad thing, The Skill Jun suddenly saw a mavericks fan say this:
'No matter how tough the season ahead, we at least have Dirk's shirt flying high in the arena.
This sentence brings me back to the years when the NBA used to fight its own battles, and every city has its own hero.
Every hero tries to open an era of his own.
Eleven years have passed since Dirk won the championship, and fans who have not experienced that era have difficulty understanding how difficult Dirk's situation was at that time.
Before the start of the championship season, scouts ranked the Mavericks out of ten, but what about the drivers? It's just a tall white pitcher sprayed as a "soft egg" by fans. Who knew that entering the playoffs, this "soft egg" in their eyes taught all "strong enemies" a lesson.
In the first round, six games took away the Blazers led by Ade, Roy, Camby and others;
The second round swept the previous year's championship Lakers; the Western Conference Finals, five games to kill the young Thunder three less;
In the finals, six games broke the Big Three of the South Coast.
In these four rounds of the playoffs, the famous interior all-stars such as "Aldridge", "Gasol", "Ibaka" and "Bosh" were blown up. What is this concept? Let's give a couple an example.
The difficulty of Nowitzki's crown is equivalent to the current decline in wind ratings, and after entering the playoffs, he suddenly began to go crazy: the Thunder who blew up Morant in the first round, the Suns that swept the cannon brother in the second round, the Warriors who killed Kutang in the West Finals, and then killed the full body Nets in the Finals, bringing back a championship for the Great Northwest.
This is far from enough, more harmful than that crown, is the persistence of one person and one city for 22 years.
The regular season has the third-longest playing time, fourth-best appearances, sixth-highest total scores, eighth-highest goal scores, 13th all-time three-point shooting and 26th in rebounding history.
1 regular season MVP, 1 Finals MVP, 1 championship ring, 14 All-Star lineups, 4 best first team, 5 best second team. And all of this was achieved on the Mavericks.
In his lifetime, he never put on the jersey of another team, so you can understand why Mavericks owner Cuban would say:
"Whenever and wherever Dirk needs help, I'll be there."
So you can understand why Mavericks fans can never get around that 41-point saga when they mention their home team. So you can understand why Nowitzki has only one championship, but when fans mention the big forward President Hill, he must be indispensable.
From 1998 to 2019, the career of the legendary big forward officially came to an end today.
What floats up is the legend, and what falls is the youth of a group of big boys.
Goodbye, forever 41, next, it's the age of the little drivers.