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Dirk Nowitzki to Join Mavs Broadcast Crew

Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki will join Mark Followill on the Bally Sports Southwest broadcast tonight as the Mavs take on the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Dalton Trigg

As the injury and COVID-riddled Dallas Mavericks prepare for their rematch with the Minnesota Timberwolves at American Airlines Center tonight, Mavs fans tuning into the home broadcast on Bally Sports Southwest will be in for a major pre-Christmas treat.

On Tuesday night, Mavs’ legend and front office ‘special advisor’ Dirk Nowitzki will join lead announcer Mark Followill on the call as Dallas looks to get back to .500 on the season against Minnesota.

It’s been about two and a half years since Nowitzki decided to hang up his No. 41 Dallas jersey for good after an outstanding 21-season run with the only NBA team he ever laced up his sneakers for. And everyone knows that Nowitzki has never been one to seek out the spotlight, so Mavs fans haven’t really heard much from him since he retired.

Back in 2012, an injured Nowitzki joined the Mavs’ broadcasting crew and lost his mind when former Dallas big man Brandan Wright threw down an alley-oop thrown by Jason Terry. Nowitzki’s “Shut it down! Let’s go home!” line became iconic in the Mavs fan community. Maybe, at some point, Dirk can encourage current Mavs superstar Luka Doncic to provide us similar content going forward when he misses time due to injuries.

Although we don’t get to hear as much from Dirk these days as we’d like, every time he does speak, good things tend to come of it. Nowitzki just makes everyone feel good, and we’d expect nothing less from tonight.

So even if you’re bummed out about the Mavs being shorthanded and struggling during this young NBA season, tune into Mavs-Wolves tonight for an emotional pick-me-up, courtesy of Nowitzki himself.

On January 5, 2022, the Mavs will officially raise Nowitzki’s number into the AAC rafters when Dallas takes on the Golden State Warriors in an ESPN primetime matchup.

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Dalton Trigg
DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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