There might have been no one more conflicted about the Dallas Mavericks' widely criticized Luka Donu010diu0107 trade than Dirk Nowitzki.
On the one hand, Nowitzki is the easy answer for the greatest and most beloved player in Dallas history after 21 years of playing for the team. He still works for the Mavericks in an ambassador and advisor capacity and still has a house in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
On the other, Nowitzki was close to Donu010diu0107 in the way that only two intersecting superstars can be. Donu010diu0107 joined the Mavericks in Nowitzki's final season and the two of them are still close, with Nowitzki providing the 25-year-old a blueprint for succeeding as a European star in the same market.