DALLAS -- On the night of Dirk Nowitzki's final home game in 2019, Dallas Mavericks governor Mark Cuban promised to have the "biggest, most badass statue ever" erected in front of the American Airlines Center to honor the legend.
"It's a promise that gives me joy to deliver on, because you earned it," Cuban told Nowitzki on Christmas morning, minutes before the nearly 24-foot-high statue was unveiled steps from the street renamed a few years ago as Nowitzki Way.
The white bronze statue is a sculpture of Nowitzki's iconic one-legged fadeaway jumper, the same shot that is featured as silhouettes near the left block on both ends of the American Airlines Center court.