Dirk Nowitzki has called the United States, and specifically Dallas, home for the past 21 years. That means that Nowitzki, who hails from Germany and turns 41 this summer, has therefore spent more than half his life in Texas after landing in Dallas with a bleached blonde bowl cut in 1998. During all his time in the States, though, he never once started the process of becoming a U.S. citizen. That’s about to change.
Nowitzki and his wife, Jessica, who is a Swedish citizen, have started down the long road of gaining citizenship, The Dallas Morning News’ Brad Townsend reports.