New York Knicks power forward Kristaps Porzingis has been consistently compared to Dirk Nowitzki. Whether fair, lazy, stereotypical, or a combination of the three, those comparisons have been omnipresent during Porzingis’ brief career.
While Porzingis certainly shares a likeness to the German icon, the 7’3″ phenom has revealed that Nowitzki isn’t the only European legend he idolized.
The leap to the Nowitzki comparisons is easy for NBA fans to make, as he may be the greatest European player in Association history. Players who come over from Europe are influenced by a far more extensive list than the household names, however, as Porzingis has explained.