NBA: Speed over Nowitzki: More or less cotton wool throw.

Holger Geschwindner does not believe that his protégé Dirk Nowitzki’s career will end soon:”He still has fun, especially with the young guys who can sharpen their teeth and their weapons against a player who already knows all the tricks,”said the mentor of the German basketball superstar Sport1.

Nowitzki starts into the new season of the professional league NBA with his Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night – for the Wuerzburg team it’s the 20th time.Geschwindner still sees no sign of any ideas of retreat.However, the desire for sport is of elementary importance:”Playing with this intensity does not mean going to work with reluctance.When the point occurs, he must stop.”

It is right that 39-year-old Nowitzki should continue to do so despite the disappointing past years:”Many people always think that you should stop at the climax,”said Geschwindner.

“This applies to sports such as car racing, where the whole family is trembling to see if he comes from the streets alive.But for a game where you throw more or less cotton wool, it’s just stupid stuff.”