The Dallas Mavericks and Dirk Nowitzki go hand-in-hand like peanut butter and jelly, like salt and pepper, like corned beef and sauerkraut. Without Dirk, the Mavs would have never been the entertaining team that they have become over the past couple decades, prior to the rebuild of 2016-2018.
That said, Dirk Nowitzki entered the NBA in 1998 and it is now 2019. The best of the Dirk show is behind us and every point scored after this point will be a present wrapped and placed under the tree by the Big German himself.
So what makes this return of the G.