Dirk crashes Pau Gasol’s Twitter celebration with savage dunk video

Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki may be 37-years-old but that doesn’t mean he isn’t a savage in the streets of Twitter.com.

On Saturday, Pau Gasol held a fun contest for his followers ahead of what will be his 1,000th career game: Tweet a video of your favorite Pau play! The winner gets a big prize.

The rules were as follows:

• Pau Gasol had to make the play
• The play must be from a regular season game
• Be creative!

Well, Dirk decided to crash the party with a video of a brutal posterization of Pau by Nikola Vucevic last season:

@paugasol https://t.co/2Nm49A8B1i #pau1000 congrats
— Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) December 5, 2015

Damn! Pau fell to the ground! That’s a devious method of congratulating someone.

Gasol tried to play it like a champ, but you could tell by his liberal emoji use that he was clearly a bit taken aback.

@swish41 there have been a few of those too! 😅 Thanks for sharing mate! 😂😂😂
— Pau Gasol (@paugasol) December 5, 2015

Dirk, the clear winner of this contest, would now like to know how he can collect his winnings.

@paugasol Hahaha. My bad amigo. Let me know what prize I won....
— Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) December 5, 2015

Pau’s 1000th game starts at 8 p.m. ET on Saturday. He will visit Dallas on Dec. 26, and try to exact revenge on Dirk.

- Kenny Ducey