recent episode of the Roadtrippin podcast<\/a>, Channing Frye was asked this question by a fan: In your 14-year career as a player, who pissed you off the most on the court, and what did he do to piss you off? Frye\u2019s answer probably wasn\u2019t what the fan was expecting.<\/p>\n\u201cProbably Dirk,\u201d Frye said. \u201cBecause he\u2019s so damn nice. … I watched a lot of Dirk. I loved his game. He was just unguardable. I mean, it was literally like, \u2018What am I gonna do?\u2019 He\u2019s an inch taller than me and shoots the way he does. He was smart. He\u2019s a big dude, strong. I mean, it was just like, \u2018God, I\u2019m so tired of having to guard this guy.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018What are you gonna do?\u2019 And then he\u2019d be the nicest guy, and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Shut up, Dirk… I hate that you\u2019re nice and I like you. You\u2019re a good dude… and you just gave me 40.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nowitzki may not have been mean to anybody verbally or physically most of the time, but he was certainly mean to a lot of people in the form of bucket-getting. One glaring example that sticks out to me is after Game 4 of the 2011 NBA Finals, when Nowitzki, despite battling a 102-degree fever, pushed through and helped the Mavs tie the series at 2-2. Afterward, Miami Heat stars Dwyane Wade and LeBron James were seen mocking Nowitzki\u2019s sickness with fake coughing in the American Airlines Center hallways.<\/p>\n
Nowitzki never showed any visible anger from that incident; He simply stayed the course, continued to torch Miami, and got the last laugh by winning the championship in six games on the Heat\u2019s home court. I\u2019m sure that pissed D-Wade and LeBron off too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks legend Dirk Nowitzki is one of the nicest human beings you\u2019ll ever meet. During his playing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,1325,590,85],"class_list":["post-851817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-general","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}