In the 2014-15 Dallas Mavericks season, something happened that Mavs fans had been dreading for more than a decade and a half. For the first time since the year 2000, the Dallas Mavericks had a new leading scorer for the team. Dirk Nowitzki was officially on the decline.
No one really wanted to accept the fact that Dirk’s play could ever decline. After so many years of watching the big German dominate the court and being the heart and soul of the Mavs squad, things had finally changed. And even though Dirk was once again the leading scorer for the team the next year, people still knew that the time was coming when Dirk would no longer be in the NBA.