MVP!

Funny quote from Dirk Nowitzki, who hates doing publicity shots:

"It takes four hours and I have to put on makeup," he laments. "I could be home reading a book or doing something else."

And one more from a former employee of the Mavs:

Gregg Elkin, former head of media relations for the Mavericks and now a PR director for the Texas Rangers, remembers Nowitzki struggling with his celebrity early on. "Dirk was surprised people wanted to talk to him," says Elkin. "I remember his dad asking me what his son could do to avoid attention. All I could come up with was maybe he should sit down when in public, so he wasn't as obvious."

I laughed right outloud on that one...

To read the whole article, click here.

posted by Headless-in-GR @ 4/20/2007 11:16:00 PM