Nowitzki shaves head and beard

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

A clean start: Nowitzki opens offseason by shaving hair, beard
By JAIME ARON, AP Sports Writer
June 22, 2006

DALLAS (AP) -- Don't worry Mavs fans: Dirk Nowitzki was bored, not despondent, when he took a razor to his head the day after the NBA finals.

"It's summertime," Nowitzki said Thursday, showing off a clean-shaven face and head. "Sitting home yesterday, I was disappointed, obviously, frustrated. I had to do something."

On the day the Dallas Mavericks were hoping to host a winner-take-all Game 7 against the Miami Heat, everyone instead was getting on with their lives.

From Nowitzki sporting his new haircut to Marquis Daniels flashing a diamond grill in his mouth to Darrell Armstrong showing up in golf attire and a bucket hat, the change from championship mode to summer vacation was stark.

Banners were coming down around the arena and seats that had been removed for the media were being bolted back in. Instead of using an interview room with NBA logo backdrops, players were asked to stand on a makeshift podium of four boxes of programs shoved together by TV cameramen seeking better angles.

"This ain't the NBA finals any more," Jason Terry said, laughing, when told he really was supposed to step up there.

In the locker room, coach Avery Johnson gave one last talk to the entire team. Terry said it included a final huddle with everyone stacking hands in the middle.

"We had to do it twice," he said, "because it just felt like there was another game to play."

Instead, players said their goodbyes to each other, then headed for their cars. Guys left carrying signed team placards, a framed team photo from their tux-and-tennies gala and bags full of gear -- some leaving for only a few weeks, some never to return as Mavericks.

The business of the offseason begins next week with the draft, then the start of free agency. Terry is the marquee Mavs player on the market and he continued saying how much he'd like to remain in Dallas. Johnson and entrenched teammates Nowitzki and Josh Howard all said how much they hope Terry returns.

"I'm going to do whatever is humanly possible to make sure that we keep this thing going in the right direction," Johnson said. "I joke with some of the players, if I can get Hakeem Olajuwon or Larry Bird or Michael Jordan in their prime, I'm going to do that. I'm going to do whatever it takes to make the best decisions for our franchise.

"But I feel we're close. You watched it. We're not a team that's far off. I think we have a lot of solid pieces. We had a good foundation and we built on top of it. We have a championship-quality product that our fans can be proud of."

An NBA laughingstock a decade ago, the Mavericks had the best season in the franchise's 26-year history in 2005-06.

They won 60 games, tying their most, then became the Western Conference champions for the first time by knocking out Memphis, San Antonio and Phoenix. They had home-court advantage in the finals and won the first two games in Dallas. Then they went to Miami and were up by 13 with 6:34 left in Game 3 -- and lost.

One week later, the parade plans city leaders optimistically made after Game 2 were officially scrapped. The Mavericks lost 95-92, capping a stunning four-game skid, their first of the season.

Although Game 3 was obviously the turning point, it wasn't necessarily the point of no return. Dallas lost Game 5 by a single point in overtime, then lost the finale by three points, with Terry missing a 3-pointer in the closing seconds.

"The last few nights, every two, three hours I wake up and replay that last shot over and over in my mind, hoping it'll go in," Terry said. "But it doesn't ever go in."

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here is nowitzki w/ his head and beard shaved:




i wanna see the one w/ the diamond grill lol

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Yea, he shaves his head every once in a while, nothing really new...LOL@Marquis Daniels with a diamond grill.

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

i wonder how long it takes for his hair to grow

id feel depressed if it took a few months lol; ull hafta wait all that time again to let it grow

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

i wonder how long it takes for his hair to grow

id feel depressed if it took a few months lol; ull hafta wait all that time again to let it grow

Who cares? It's only hair...He shaves it like every year, hair doesn't usually take THAT long to grow back.

[Doggystylin]

he should have shaved it all the way with a razor, he would have looked like a skinhead, lol

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

he should have shaved it all the way with a razor, he would have looked like a skinhead, lol

LMAO, he would look like Michael Berryman.