He arrived as a shy kid unsure of exactly what would befall him as he started a new life in a foreign place.
Yes, we're talking about Luka Doncic, not Dirk Nowitzki, although it applied to him, too, way back when.
The education of the Mavericks' newest European import has been different than it was for Nowitzki, who got to Dallas as a 19-year-old and had never lived much of anywhere outside of a basketball gym and his parents' home in Wurzburg, Germany.
Doncic? He's been worldly for years, traveling extensively as one of Real Madrid's best players for the last several seasons.