There was a funny interview given by Nowitzki in a german TV sport's show called "Aktuelles Sportstudio" at the tv station ZDF at Sunday 18th August 2007.
Here is the link for anyone who is interested in that interview and is fluent in German. The comment referring to doping starts at 3:30 minutes.
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2167589
The reporter mentioned that in the NBA the schedule is quite tough. They play a game every second day and have to travel a lot across the whole United States.
Then the reporter said that in europe there is a big discussion going on about doping and he asked Nowitzki what his experience with "doping" in the NBA environment is.
In my opinion Dirk answered in a very stupid way on that question.
He said personaly he has not any experiences with doping in the NBA and that he could not imagine that doping would be of any help in a team ball sport, maybe for regeneration only but then the danger is to loose the feeling for the ball. So he personally does not think that doping can help but he would like to be proven wrong or he would like to be convinced of the opposite.
Quite hard to translate his sentence in english . In German he said "Ich lass mich gerne anders überzeugen"!
Then the reporter asked if there are doping tests in the NBA and Dirk answered that they get tested four times the season and the reporter directly replied that the number of test is not that much in comparision with the players in europe that get tested all time long.
Then the reporter changed the topic without letting Dirk to give a respond on that to the NBA referee scandal.
Here is the link for anyone who is interested in that interview and is fluent in German. The comment referring to doping starts at 3:30 minutes.
http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2167589
The reporter mentioned that in the NBA the schedule is quite tough. They play a game every second day and have to travel a lot across the whole United States.
Then the reporter said that in europe there is a big discussion going on about doping and he asked Nowitzki what his experience with "doping" in the NBA environment is.
In my opinion Dirk answered in a very stupid way on that question.
He said personaly he has not any experiences with doping in the NBA and that he could not imagine that doping would be of any help in a team ball sport, maybe for regeneration only but then the danger is to loose the feeling for the ball. So he personally does not think that doping can help but he would like to be proven wrong or he would like to be convinced of the opposite.
Quite hard to translate his sentence in english . In German he said "Ich lass mich gerne anders überzeugen"!
Then the reporter asked if there are doping tests in the NBA and Dirk answered that they get tested four times the season and the reporter directly replied that the number of test is not that much in comparision with the players in europe that get tested all time long.
Then the reporter changed the topic without letting Dirk to give a respond on that to the NBA referee scandal.
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