“Of course I’m very happy about that,” Wagner told the German Press Agency after the loss of his Orlando Magic at the Washington Wizards. Nowitzki is “a huge legend and a huge inspiration for me and many other basketball players in Germany”. Wagner scored 28 points at 110:127 and was the best thrower on his team.
The best German basketball player in history was impressed by Wagner’s first season in the NBA in a dpa interview earlier in the week. “I have to say that he really impressed me in his first year. I didn’t follow him that much in college. I was really surprised at how solid he is, how good his all-round game is. You can build on that,” Nowitzki said said and added with a view to the European Championships in Germany in the fall: “If he has asserted himself in the NBA, then he can also play a really important role in the European Championships.”
Source: dpa