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}} Dirk Werner Nowitzki ((:ˈdɪʁk ˈvɛʁnɐ noˈvɪtski)) (born June 19, 1978) is a German professional basketball player who currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). An alumnus of Röntgen Gymnasium and the DJK Würzburg basketball club, Nowitzki was chosen as the ninth pick in the 1998 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks and immediately traded to the Mavericks, where he has played since. Listed at ,〔(Dirk Nowitzki Stats, Video, Bio, Profile )〕 Nowitzki is considered one of the greatest power forwards in basketball history.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top 10 power forwards in NBA history )〕 Nowitzki led the Mavericks to 14 NBA Playoffs (2001–2012; 2014–2015), including the franchise's first Finals appearance in 2006 and only championship in 2011. He is a 13-time All-Star, a 12-time All-NBA Team member, and the first European player to start in an All-Star Game as well as the first to receive the NBA Most Valuable Player Award (2007).〔(Nowitzki is first European to be named MVP ), sports.espn.go.com, May 16, 2007, accessed January 6, 2008〕 Nowitzki is the highest-scoring foreign-born player in NBA-history, currently being ranked 7th in all-time scoring with over 28,000 regular-season points.〔(Career points leaders ) Basketball-Reference.com - NBA & ABA Leaders and Records for Points - retrieved 03 April 2015〕 He is also one of six players who achieved a 50–40–90 season (2007). He is the first Maverick voted onto an All-NBA Team and holds several all-time Mavericks franchise records.〔(Dirk Nowitzki – Bio ), nba.com, accessed January 6, 2008〕 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Nowitzki are the only players to achieve four consecutive 30-point, 15-rebound post-season games (2001–2002).〔(Basketball-Reference.com ) retrieved April 27, 2015〕〔(Basketball-Reference.com ) retrieved April 27, 2015〕 Nowitzki led the German national basketball team to a bronze medal in the 2002 FIBA World Championship and silver in EuroBasket 2005, and was the leading scorer and MVP in both tournaments. He was named the Euroscar European Basketball Player of the Year by the Italian sports newspaper ''Gazzetta dello Sport'' for five years running from 2002 to 2006 and again in 2011.〔(Dirk Nowitzki named Europlayer of the year – Dallas Mavericks Blog – ESPN Dallas ). Espn.go.com. Retrieved on 2012-08-10.〕 He was also named the Mister Europa European Player of the Year by the Italian sports magazine ''Superbasket'' in 2005, and the FIBA Europe Basketball Player of the Year twice in 2005 and 2011.〔 On December 18, 2011, Nowitzki was named the 2011 German Sports Personality of the Year, the first basketball player to receive the award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dirk Nowitzki named Germany's Sportsman of the Year )〕 On December 10, 2012, he became the first non-American player to receive the Naismith Legacy Award. ==Early years== Born in Würzburg, Germany, Nowitzki comes from an athletic family: his mother Helga Nowitzki (née Bredenbröcker) was a professional basketball player and his father Jörg-Werner was a handball player who represented Germany at the highest international level. His older sister Silke Nowitzki, a local champion in track and field, also became a basketball player and now works for the NBA in International TV.〔〔Sauer, 30〕 Nowitzki was a very tall child; most of the time he stood above his peers by a foot or more.〔 He initially played handball and tennis, but soon grew tired of being called a "freak" for his height and eventually turned to basketball.〔Sauer, 14–17〕 After joining the local DJK Würzburg, the 15-year-old attracted the attention of former German international basketball player Holger Geschwindner, who spotted his talent immediately and offered to coach him individually two to three times per week. After getting both the approval of Nowitzki and his parents, Geschwindner put his student through an unorthodox training scheme: he emphasized shooting and passing exercises, and shunned weight training and tactical drills, because he felt it was "unnecessary friction".〔Sauer, 20–22〕 Furthermore, Geschwindner encouraged Nowitzki to play a musical instrument and read literature to make him a more complete personality.〔 After a year, the coach was so impressed with Nowitzki's progress that he advised him: "You must now decide whether you want to play against the best in the world or just stay a local hero in Germany. If you choose the latter, we will stop training immediately, because nobody can prevent that anymore. But if you want to play against the best, we have to train on a daily basis." After pondering this lifetime decision for two days, Nowitzki agreed to enter the full-time training schedule, choosing the path to his eventual international career. Geschwindner let him train seven days a week with DJK Würzburg players and future German internationals Robert Garrett, Marvin Willoughby and Demond Greene, and in the summer of 1994, then 16-year-old Nowitzki made the DJK squad.〔Sauer, 22–24〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dirk Nowitzki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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