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.

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.

Cool beans. See a Dirk Nowitzki bobblehead get launched 94,630 feet into orbit for an auction.

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Mavs superstar Dirk Nowitzki takes time out to play some one-on-one with a young fan in the Dallas Children’s Medical Center.

The good news for the Dallas Mavericks was their all-time leading scorer Dirk Nowitzki finally returned to action from arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. In 20 minutes of work off the bench against the Spurs, Nowitzki scored 8 points, grabbed 6 rebounds and had a steal.

“Before the game I felt decent, so I said I’m going to give it a go,” Nowitzki said. “I felt actually good out there. I thought the wind was OK, but my legs were a little heavy there after a couple of trips up and down but I thought I fought through it OK.”

On to the bad news.

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Created by Patrick Ortega from Berlin, Germany this Dirk Nowitzki piece is best viewed in a b-boy stance while listening to some proper old school tracks.