Dirk Nowitzki’s brother, Jonathan Nowitzki, filed a restraining order against Mark Cuban in 2012. However, Dirk has been Mark’s good friend.
He is a German former professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Highlights
- Jonathan Nowitzki sought a restraining order against Mark Cuban for making inappropriate s*xual advances towards him.
- It occurred in Mark’s Preston Hollow mansion when Dirk and his brother visited him during game 5 of the NBA finals between the Heat and the Thunder.
- Mark warned Jonathan that if he told anyone about the incident, he would remove his brother from the team and make him unemployed.
Jonathan and Dirk belonged to an athletic family and grew up with a sister, Silke Nowitzki, in Wurzburg, Germany.
Their father, Jorg-Werner, played handball, representing Germany at the highest international level, and their mother, Helga Nowitzki, was a professional basketball player.
Their mother was a West German national team member participating in the 1966 EuroBasket Women.
Moreover, Silke was a local track and field champion who also played basketball in her youth. She currently works for the NBA in International TV.
Dirk was a tall child who played for DJK Wurzburg before the Milwaukee Bucks selected him in the ninth pick in the 1998 NBA draft.
Later, he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks and played till 2019. He is regarded as the most tremendous power forward ever and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023.
Dirk Nowitzki Brother Jonathan Nowitzki Filed A Lawsuit Against Mark Cuban
Dirk Nowitzki became a good friend of Mark Cuban for 19 years until his retirement. However, his brother sought a restraining order against Mark in June 2012.
Jonathan was humiliated by the minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban.
Mark Cuban why Dirk Nowitzki’s ‘brother’ file a lawsuit against him, alleging that during a drunken night, Mark made an inappropriate move on him and claimed that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.“Marc, He put his tongue in my ear, and put his hands on my 🍆 pic.twitter.com/nLvY6bsJRV
— John (@John92999278282) October 21, 2024
Although the lawsuit was in 2012, akafacehots’s recent tweet highlighted the issue on social media platforms in October 2024.
The issue occurred in Mark’s Preston Hollow mansion when Dirk and his brother visited him during game 5 of the NBA finals between the Heat and the Thunder.
They were watching the game in the entertainment room, but when Dirk went to the kitchen to get some nachos, Mark went to Jonathan and started kissing him on the neck.
Mark had 6 beers from the beginning of the game and was stumbling around.
He put his tongue in my ear, and put his hands down my pants. I jumped up humiliated and told him I’m not gay.
Jonathan Nowitzki’s document stated.
Then Cuban pointed at me with a Miller in his hand and said ‘You don’t deserve to be in this country’ and said ‘You people killed my family in Auchowitz [sic]’ and screamed at me ‘Youi Germans killed Jews’ and called me a Holocaust sympathizer and then threw a Miller Light at my head.
Moreover, Mark yelled at Jonathan drunkenly and said he didn’t belong in the United States like Barack Obama.
He also threatened him, warning if he told anyone about the incident, then he would cut his brother from the team, and he would be jobless. He told him he got all the money to hunt him down like a dog in Germany.
Jonathan was too scared to tell Drik what happened when he arrived at the entertainment room. Later, he sought a restraining order from the German Embassy in Washington.
However, the case was dismissed because Jonathan didn’t respond to the court’s orders.
Additional Information
- 46 year-old Dirk Nowitzki was born on June 19, 1978, and initially played handball and tennis.
- He led the German national team to a bronze medal in the 2002 FIBA World Championship and silver in EuroBasket 2005.
- He has amassed an estimated net worth of $140 million as of 2024.
- On January 4, 2000, Mark Cuban purchased a majority stake in the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks from H. Ross Perot Jr. for $285 million.
