In any language, Dirk Nowitzki deserves our never-ending thanks

Thank you.
While there are not enough words in Webster’s Unabridged to adequately pay homage to Dirk Nowitzki, those two are a good place to start. So let’s give thanks – in many, varied ways.
Or, as we started his 21st and last season way back in October, we could say xie xie (shay-shay) for the way that Nowitzki sat with so many kids at a hoops camp in Shanghai. He couldn’t speak their language, but he knew the international language of hoops and he watched as the wanna