How Luka Doncic Won Dirk Nowitzki’s Respect | The Bill Simmons Podcast 

Yeah it’s weird, cause like let’s say hypothetically, Luka wins Dallas some chips or 2 mvps or breaks some Mavericks record... he’d still be regarded as the 2nd greatest Maverick cause of Dirks huge insurmountable legacy. Maybe the thought process will change in let’s say 60 years. But I feel the consensus for the next 30 years (long after Luka retires) will still have Dirk as the greatest Maverick of all time.

@@jonathanriojas2177 plenty of youngins will be singing luka over dirk all day

yea

@@jonathanriojas2177 I do think that Luka has a chance to surpass Dirk. I think Luka has a chance to be somewhere in the top five players of all time.

@@jonathanriojas2177 if Luka continues on this trajectory he will overshadow many players, including Dirk.

It's because Luka reminds him so much Bird. So, for him it's like reliving his best years hahah

You're wrong. And here's why...

But he hates harden and his cheap assists?!? Like they are the most comparable player

It’s because bill loves being right on his takes.

@@Lordandmaster26 Luka has similarities with quite a few players, not just Harden.

Who hates Dirk?! :D

The city went wild after they won lol

The competition dirk faced was dsmn near unbelievable beat a young talented okc ...beat the defending Champs the lakers took out Miamis big 3 sheeshh ..that alone top 3 run ever ...dirk faced atleast 9HOF

@Late Notice means more than the 2 cheap rings KD won

yea

same haha, can't wait for the full podcast

Same haha

Me too

Dirk the original stretch big. The reason 7 footers shoot the 3 so much now.

I’d hope so.Luka has only played a few years p

Could also add the all time team in a season w the current one and just trade the Lukas w the extra stars from the all time team

Nash played w prime dirk but cuban admittedly regretted not paying up to keep him.

As a Mavs fan, I'm just praying Cuban doesn't screw it up. Cleveland and OKC lost their stars when they didn't get enough talent around them. I always try to remember that Dirk's loyalty to Dallas is exceptionally rare, and there's no reason to think Luka will keep that tradition if he eventually feels unhappy.

All I hope is Luka is a legit franchise player for us. Would hate to see him team bouncing. But in this league now, who’s to say.

@@rabd3721 u have a good point. Dallas was just lucky that dirk was loyal. But I don't think Luca would be like that so they better offer him a Max contract if they can't surround him with the right players.

I feel it too after i got back to my hometown after UNI

*Year 2060* - Hey grandpa, how Mavericks won their first title? - Sit down, son. Let me tell you a legendary story...

10 years ago …time runs so fast

He was moving like Leonidis that year

Bruh durant, Westbrook and harden weren't in his prime.

Dirk essentially climbed Everest and immediately ran a full ironman.

Both speak german as a first language. Fun fact: Arnold birth place is much closer to the Lukas one (80 miles) then to the Dirk one.

@@altergreenhorn Fun fact: I used to watch his father play basketball against our team. "Slovenian Premier League"

@@BlazVeber69 wait his dad played Handball

They sound nothing alike to me but whatever lol

@@altergreenhorn Was Lukas father also a 6'7 small forward?

Maybe to casuals like you. He would have been a top 5 PF ever regardless.

That's pretty weird considering Dirk only had two bad playoff series in his entire career and he was in a lot of series. I dont think there's a single player in the HOF who didn't have at least a couple of bad playoff series. The truth is that Dirk was one of the very top playoff performers of his era overall.

That championship definitely changed the way he's viewed as it should. However, I definitely would have had the utmost respect for him still even if he hadn't won in a similar way to how I view Steve Nash as an absolute legend despite not winning. Dirk was unstoppable.

Lets all be honest he should have 2 rings. That 2006 finals was rigged af

That chip legitimized Dirk. He would have been a top 10 - 15 power forward of all time, but that ring put him into the top 5 IMO. 100% agree with the “tough enough” view, his run in 2011 validated his whole career, without it he would have been painted in a completely different light.

fr :D

Hahaha good one 😎

Lol only people who watch Luka knows he's terrible at free throws

@@dylanbrown4901 73% isnt terrible... If he is terrible, what can be said about Lebron, Giannis...

@@DGismeraESP 73% is terrible lmao. The other two are just worse at free throws, especially Giannis since he actually can't shoot.

It isn't much of a rivalry if the teams only matched up once in the postseason and one of the teams completely embarrassed the other

@@shawna4309 once 🧢

@@shawna4309 I literally feel old reading those misinformed comments sometimes. Look up the 06 finals, will ya?

@@shawna4309 L

@@a.e.a. you're actually counting '06? That's a bit of a reach to add '06 into it to make it a "rivalry". That's a whole 5 year window. Half a decade. Lol what players were on the '06 Heat/Mavs teams that were there for the second match-up in '11? D Wade, Haslem, Nowitzki, Terry. There may be a few more but not a lot. Completely different teams when they matched up a whole 5 years later. I wouldn't call that a rivalry in the least.

Not to mention how he destroyed Ibaka back in ‘11 playoffs I think that was.

Man imagine 2011 Dirk with Luka right now. That shit would be unstoppable.

Okay eminem

Whats futbol?

@@thoughtrover6400 Football/soccer in German

@@silewis9396 its called fußball in german.

Dirk hat recht.

Cuz they are both from Germany?

@@xXSprMgaAwsmFxyHtXx Arnold is Austrian, but Austrians also speak German.

Dirk is from the South of Germany. The dialects there are closer to Austrian German than they are to the German in the north of Germany. All those dialects are sort of influenced by the surrounding countries. South: Austrian, Czech. West: France. North: Denmark... The same in the other direction. Dutch is understandable for a german when spoken. Near the borders you have some sort of culture and language mixtures. There is a high German, you usually talk during business and use it for everything written and a couple hundreds of dialects based on a main dialect like the bavarians/Austrians.

Both, obviously, German. Arnold being from Austria with an Austrian dialect that sounds similar to a the dialect in the neighboring Southern part of Germany where Munich is the capital of the state of Bavaria. Dirk on the other hands hails from the Northern part of the German state of Bavariav where they speak a different dialect. But most just think it sounds similar.

aw hellz naw, a Prison Break reference?

@@stanvanillo9831 PG and Kawhi

It's at the end of his recent one with Joe House, no idea why he hid it there

Once he reaches his prime I could see him doing something like that, yeah.

and kobe!!

Maybe not but he can definitely get PG and Kawhi lol

The whole team was missing free-throws . If they can make their free-throws they will sweep the clippers.

the full interview is on apple podcasts rn. listened to it this morning. Don't know how long till it will be up here though

Spotify has it too!

Athleticism

Its a lot more important at Luka's position. Besides Dirk was a solid athlete for a 7 footer at the time of his draft

Athleticness is just awesome. Specially talking about Luka.

@@silewis9396 He was more than solid, there wasn’t a 4 or 5 in the league that could guard him in space. He could run like a deer.

@@shammycat3538 Young Dirk was truly a phenomenon.

I would put Garnett before Dirk in terms of overall career. But Dirk has the highest peak when he single-handedly beat the Heat’s big 3.

@@M0ebius Kinda shows how OP Dirk was on offense that it's even a conversation who was better between him and Garnett lol

@@M0ebius I'd never put KG over Dirk

@@M0ebius H2H matchups between Dirk and KG tilts heavily in favor of Dirk and in my mind pushes him over the top

1 on 1 Dirk would win over KG

lol we’ll see if kawhi regains his “edge” in game 2

@@Adam-xg1ch is appears not