A generation ago, a sports-drink commercial encouraged everybody to Be Like Mike.
Michael Jordan was a role model to millions. Then he had kids and realized he was going to have to do it for real with his own young-uns.
Dirk Nowitzki now has three kids and he's finding out that this real-life role model stuff isn't all that different from what he's been trying to do for nearly two decades as the Mavericks' franchise icon.
He just stays himself. So when he entertained more than 100 kids at the Mavs Basketball Academy Hoop Camp on Tuesday, he was just doing what comes naturally.