Hooped Up

Celebrating current players on their way to becoming legends because of successful Finals moments that live on forever. The first commercial in the “Forever Is BIG ” series features Dirk Nowitzki making his trademark fade away jumper in Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals against the Heat.

Then the commercial shows all the depiction of Dirk suspended in that very moment across the world in various ways, from cakes to clocks, representing the different ways the moment is remembered.

The Mavericks won’t make the playoffs, but last night’s victory over the equally terrible Hornets did hold some significance. The win put the Mavs at 40-40 for the season and allowed Dirk Nowitzki and his teammates to finally shave their beards for the first time in months. As you might recall, earlier this season a few Dallas players agreed to not shave until they became a .500 team. Dirk didn’t waste time on his promise either.

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Dirk Nowitzki illustrated by Korean artist Min-suk KIM aka Kwang33.

Check out some highlights of Jason Kidd when he was a kid and Rookie of the Year with the Dallas Mavericks to celebrate his 40th birthday.

If you know anything about Flula aka The German Moses song guy. You already know he hails from Germany, loves Dirk Nowitzki and that he’s the weird songbird of his generation. Anyway, Flula recently travelled to Dallas to see Dirk and the Mavericks in action and he even had an interview with Mavs announcer Skin. If you thought his songs were strange, you have obviously never seen one of his interviews. Check it out after the jump.

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The Harlem Shake is sweeping / shaking the nation. That’s okay cause Vince Carter, Dirk Nowitzki and the rest of the Mavericks are down with it too. I’m still giving University of Western the slight edge for best Harlem Shake of the day though.

Cagey Vince Cater plays the “I’m so hurt I can barely move so I’ll pretend to be wincing in the corner so you’ll forget me until you totally do then I’ll sneak back into the play for a super nasty hammer dunk, like I did so many times back in the day” role to perfection before halftime. What a tricky trickster.

How did Vince Carter go from a kid growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida to the Rookie of the Year, face of basketball in Canada and maybe the most dominating dunker of his generation? It’s nice to imagine that maybe it happened like this.

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