who has dirk nowitzki played for?
Dallas Mavericks
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 On July 15 , 2014 , Nowitzki re @-@ signed with the Mavericks to a reported three @-@ year , $ 25 million contract . He was also reunited with former championship teammate Tyson Chandler , who was traded to Dallas after a 3 @-@ year stint with New York . Also to come over from New York was point guard Raymond Felton . The Mavericks made big strides in the off @-@ season to put Dirk with some considerable talent , signing a rising small forward Chandler Parsons and veteran point guard Jameer Nelson . The Mavericks later signed former championship teammate J. J. Barea after the Timberwolves waived him . 

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 Nowitzki 's career has been chronicled in books . Dirk Nowitzki : German Wunderkind , written by German sports journalists Dino Reisner and Holger Sauer , was published in 2004 by CoPress Munich . The 160 @-@ page hardcover book follows Nowitzki 's beginnings in his native Würzburg , documents his entry and ascent in the NBA , and ends at the beginning of the 2004 – 05 NBA season . 

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 Dirk Werner Nowitzki ( German pronunciation : [ ˈdɪʁk ˈvɛʁnɐ noˈvɪtski ] ) ( born June 19 , 1978 ) is a German professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . An alumnus of Röntgen Gymnasium and the DJK Würzburg basketball club , Nowitzki was chosen as the ninth pick in the 1998 NBA draft by the Milwaukee Bucks and immediately traded to the Mavericks , where he has played since . Listed at 7 ft 0 in ( 2 @.@ 13 m ) , Nowitzki is considered one of the greatest power forwards in basketball history . 

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 On July 22 , 2016 , Nowitzki agreed to re @-@ sign with the Mavericks on a two @-@ year , $ 50 million contract . 

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 Nowitzki led the German national basketball team to a bronze medal in the 2002 FIBA World Championship and silver in EuroBasket 2005 , and was the leading scorer and MVP in both tournaments . He was named the Euroscar European Basketball Player of the Year by the Italian sports newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport for five years running from 2002 to 2006 and again in 2011 . He was also named the Mister Europa European Player of the Year by the Italian sports magazine Superbasket in 2005 , and the FIBA Europe Men 's Player of the Year twice in 2005 and 2011 . 
