But it can be taken as a good sign that Nowitzki, who had left ankle surgery in April and has been recovering since, is nudging ever-closer to starting his 21 st season. Never mind that Nowitzki's ...

Spoken from the perspective of having followed Geschwindner's instructions for roughly 25 years now, to the tune of becoming the No. 6 scorer in NBA history.

Maybe not, but Geschwindner can. He developed the formulas 13 years ago in his hometown of Würzburg when he began working with a lanky 16-year-old named Dirk Nowitzki, voted Most Valuable Player ...

But Geschwindner, a former physicist and ’72 West German Olympian who has been Dirk’s mentor for half his life, bends the rules to odd extremes.

And at 29 years old, we’re past the point of hoping for improvement. But since his midseason trade from the Celtics to the Mavericks, Rondo has started working with Holger Geschwindner, the shooting ...

Geschwindner is Nowitzki's shooting guru, and Nowitzki is one of the best shooters in NBA history. If the two of them can help Antetokounpmo with his still-developing outside shot, it could ...

BERLIN -- Dirk Nowitzki's longtime coach and confidant was released by a German court after five weeks in jail on tax evasion charges. Prosecutors suspect Holger Geschwindner, whom Nowitzki calls ...

Holger Geschwindner has been held since July 19, reportedly on suspicion he failed to declare income earned through Nowitzki. He was arrested because of fear he would flee or suppress evidence.