If you play for the Boston Celtics or the Los Angeles Lakers, you\u2019re going to have plenty of old timers who will be happy to give you advice. If you\u2019re a Celtic, you might be able to call on people like Satch Sanders, Bob Cousy, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and others. The Lakers could hook you up with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Gail Goodrich, James Worthy, Michael Cooper and others who would be keen to advise you on Lakers tradition.<\/p>\n
With the Mavericks? Your options are more limited.<\/p>\n
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Coach Jason Kidd is an option. You might not like what Luka Doncic has to say. Maybe Steve Nash. If you\u2019re a bigger player though, there\u2019s one guy you\u2019ll want to hear from more than any other, and that\u2019s Dirk Nowitzki.<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s what Nowitzki, who was once recruited by Duke before heading to the NBA, had for Flagg: <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not quite sure I can help him with advice. The only thing is keep your eyes and ears open. Keep learning from your veterans. He\u2019s got some incredible players on the team now with Kyrie, obviously Klay. AD\u2019s been around forever. There\u2019s so much knowledge there that he can tap into and learn from.<\/p>\n \u201cAsk questions. How are their pregame routines? What do they eat? How do they prepare for events? What do they do with appearances? How do they interact with the media? That was key for me at the beginning, watching\u00a0Michael Finley, who was a true pro.\u00a0Steve Nash, learning from them.\u201d<\/p>\n For not wanting to give advice in the first place, Nowitzki\u2019s is really smart.<\/p>\n Blue Healer Auctions<\/a> | Drop us a line<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you play for the Boston Celtics or the Los Angeles Lakers, you\u2019re going to have plenty of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[109355,3125,41243,109357,109354,28682,87614,3963,109358,3961,3141,3365,76178,107954,1260,109356,62,47257,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-196749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-bob-cousy","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-dirk-nowitzki","11":"tag-gail-goodrich","12":"tag-james-worthy","13":"tag-jason-kidd","14":"tag-kareem-abdul-jabbar","15":"tag-kevin-mchale","16":"tag-klay","17":"tag-larry-bird","18":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","19":"tag-luka-doncic","20":"tag-magic-johnson","21":"tag-michael-cooper","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-satch-sanders","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-steve-nash","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115140243376519422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}