In today's look into the Mavs news cycle, future Hall-of-Famer Dirk Nowitzki isn't ready to call it a career just yet. However, that doesn't mean he isn't at least thinking about life after basketball.
Per Bryan Gutierrez of ESPNDallas.com, one of the most attractive ideas for Dirk after he hangs up his sneakers is to give back what was given to him as a coach.
"Some of the stuff Holger has done with me, I'd love to keep that going," Nowitzki said of his mentor, Holger Geschwindner, via Gutierrez's article posted on Wednesday. "Holger mentioned it to me before, 'What you have learned from me, I want you to give to someone else someday.' Maybe I'll do that a little bit later -- individual coaching."
However, don't get your hopes up that Dirk is looking to slide into a role as an assistant coach with the Mavs after he retires.
"I don't think I'll ever be a team coach," Nowitzki stated. "I saw with J-Kidd how he's interested in plays and thinking ahead. That doesn't interest me. I don't care how you get me the ball. Just get the ball to me."
"Plays and stuff like that never interested me. It was just the skill level that interested me. I'm sure if I'm a coach one day I'll do what Holger did for me, or what coach [Tim] Grugrich did here for us in the championship year, where you take the younger guys and work out every night. We'll just have to wait and see."
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