Nowitzki admires new sport

Nowitzki admires new sport Story by SID • 3 hours • 1 minute reading time The long-time NBA professional was there live at the German gold coup in Paris - he once played the sport himself. Nowitzki admires new sport Germany's basketball icon Dirk Nowitzki came out as a big fan of the sport, which is still relatively new at the Olympics, at the gold coup of the German 3x3 players. "It's fun to watch, the energy and atmosphere are great. It's a beautiful sport," said the long-time NBA professional on the sidelines of the competitions on the Place de la Concorde. His favorite sport in a slimmed-down form, which was held for the second time at the Olympics in Paris after 2021, has impressed the 153-time German national player. The dynamics of 3x3 basketball "It's much faster. You can see that you can never calm down and rest for a moment. It's fast-paced. It's almost a completely different sport to the one we play," he enthused. In Paris, the 46-year-old, as a keen fan, saw the first German basketball medal in the history of the Olympic Games up close. Svenja Brunckhorst, Sonja Greinacher, Marie Reichert and Elisa Mevius defeated Spain in a dramatic final with 17:16. He himself played the 3x3 variant in his youth at "15, 16 years old" in public places, Nowitzki said: "Three against three was such a wave in the 90s when it came along." The former Dallas Mavericks professional no longer plays, "but I like to watch," he said.