[外電] Nowitzki won't play for Germany
Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/olybb/news/story?id=4398590
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Nowitzki won't play for Germany
Updated: August 14, 2009, 1:17 PM ET
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FRANKFURT -- Germany will be without Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki at
next month's European Championship in Poland.
The German basketball federation said Friday that Mavericks owner Mark Cuban
would not allow Nowitzki to take part in the championship, even though the
forward has played for Germany at several major international events before.
Federation president Ingo Weiss said there were no hard feelings, however,
and that "we accept this decision completely."
Weiss said that "over the past 10 years, we've had an excellent and reliable
partnership with Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks, who always made it
possible for Dirk to play for the national team."
Nowitzki said he would have liked to play, "but I can understand Mark Cuban's
position."
Cuban confirmed in an e-mail to the Dallas Morning News that he had nixed
Nowitzki's participation in the European Championship.
"We had agreed last year that after his Olympics run, he would take a year
off," Cuban told the Morning News. "That simple. He is not retiring from
International Competition."
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