The Great Nowitzki cover art

The Great Nowitzki

Basketball and the Meaning of Life

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Great Nowitzki

By: Thomas Pletzinger, Shane Anderson - translator
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A journey into the mindset of a historic basketball superstar, and the importance of his landmark career.

The seven-foot Dirk Nowitzki is one of the great players in basketball history. With a devastating fadeaway and unexpected agility, the Dallas Mavericks superstar helped to pioneer the modern three-shooting game and became a global ambassador for the sport. Award-winning novelist and sportswriter Thomas Pletzinger traveled with Nowitzki for more than seven years, seeking the secret of his success and longevity. In novelistic detail, Pletzinger tells the dramatic story of how a lanky kid from the German suburbs became a top-five all-time scorer and NBA champion. He profiles the revolutionary training methods developed by Holger Geschwindner, Dirk's enigmatic mentor and coach, whose philosophical insights on performance, creativity, and freedom shaped Dirk's game.

A masterpiece of sports journalism and a work of personal obsession - akin to John McPhee's A Sense of Where You Are and David Halberstam's The Breaks of the Game - The Great Nowitzki brims with a fan's passion and offers an intimate portrait of an iconic performer.

©2019 Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Basketball Sports Sports History Inspiring
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Making of a Miracle cover art
Shattered Ice cover art
Back from the Dead cover art
The Point After cover art
Head On cover art
Play by Play cover art
Dr. Z cover art
Barkley cover art
Game cover art
The Proving Ground cover art
Around the World in 80 Minutes cover art
Dr. J Unabridged cover art
Chuck Noll cover art
The Boys of Winter cover art
Game Face cover art
Tiger, Meet My Sister... cover art

What listeners say about The Great Nowitzki

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.