The reason Nowitzki always wore “41” on the Mavericks!

Five years after his retirement from active action, Mr Dirk Nowitzki made a big revelation.

Specifically, the legendary German revealed the reason why wore “41” in his shirt, in 21 years (1998-2019) of a great career with the Mavericks. According to his words, an important role in this was played by Charles Barclaybut also the… Robert Packwho was on the Dallas team when he first went.

“When I started playing basketball I wore “11”, as this was the number my father had when he played handball. Then, I saw Barkley, who wore “14” in the Barcelona Olympics (1992) and of course I loved Charles. Really, who didn’t adore Charles back in the day? So then I changed my number and wore “14”. This is what I wore in the German national team“, said initially Nowitzki on “TNT” and added:

“When I first went to Dallas, I wanted to wear “14,” but then that belonged to Robert Pack. He then told me: “No rookie, you’re not going to get my number.” He didn’t even want to talk about it. So what I did was reverse the number from “14”, I made it “41”».

Dirk Nowitzki began his career with the Mavericks in 1998 and then Robert Pack was already in his eighth season in the NBA, while he played in the Dallas team for three years (1997-00).