GERMANY'S DETLEF SCHREMPF was in BIG D before fellow COUNTRYMAN Dirk NOWITZKI....and had MAJOR GAME

The day Former MAVS Owner Donald CARTER brought the NBA to DALLAS TEXAS they strived like everyone else to be NBA CHAMPS one day. And now some 30 plus years later the LARRY O'BRIEN Trophy rests in the Great STATE of TEXAS.

Having said that the PLAYERS that have played for DALLAS in that span have ranked up there probably in the MIDDLE of the PACK as far as TALENT. But they have had some good ones like and maybe the best PLAYER ever to don a MAVERICK JERSEY is GERMANY'S Own Dirk NOWITZKI. But hold ON.......Before the DIGGLER, aka the GERMANATOR, aka DIRTY, aka DEUTSCH MARKS.......there was Fellow Countryman Detlef SCHREMPF......WHO?......and for those who don't know.....u better ask the BLUEDUDE.

Standing at a mere 6'10" and around 230 plus EL BEES......DETLEF was a PROBLEM on almost every level that he played. He led his HS Team CENTRAL Washington to a STATE CHAMPIONSHIP and only played there his SENIOR YEAR.

From 1981 -1985 DETLEF literally ran through the competition in the PAC-10 at the UNIVERSITY of WASHINGTON HUSKIES....SEATTLE. He was named his Senior YEAR at UDUB 2nd Team ALL-AMERICAN. There in UDUB he also teamed up with another Fellow GERMAN in Christian WELP who also was a 1st round Pick in 1985.

Having made his mark at those two levels........Mr. SCHREMPF entered the 1985 NBA DRAFT to get picked by the DALLAS MAVERICKS 8th Overall. In BIG D he joined a nucleus of Derek HARPER, Mark "WEST SIDE of the CHI" AGUIRRE, Rolando "RO" BLACKMON, and the "BIG SMOOTH" Sam PERKINS. DETLEF took his lumps but those MAVS TEAMS were really good getting beat by the SHOWTIME LAKERS everytime they saw them in that SPAN of 1985-89.

Then DETLEF was traded to the Indiana PACERS where he won back to back NBA 6th MAn of the YEAR Awards from 1989-1991. With the PACERS he played with Reggie MILLER aka "It's MILLER TIME", Chuck PERSON aka the RIFLEMAN , Georgia's Vern FELMING, and the 'NOLES George McCLOUD. Detlef turned himself into a protoype NBA Small Forward in INDIANA. Meaning he could take you off the BOUNCE, Post you up, Hit it from DEEP, and finish on the BREAK.

But all that was for not when he was traded in 1993 back home to the Emerging SEATTLE SUPERSONICS with a one of the BEST SONICS TEAMS to DATE under UNC Alum Coach George KARL. LOOK AT THIS WHIP:

Shawn KEMP aka the REIGN MAN
Gary PAYTON aka the GLOVE
Kendall GILL aka the ORIGINAL KG
Nate McMILLAN aka the BRAINS of the OPERATION
Sam PERKINS aka the BIG SMOOTH
Vincent ASKEW helped Coach KARL and MArio ELIE to the CBA ALBANY NY PATROON Championships
Michael CAGE from SDSU aka CARE-FREE CURL
Ervin JOHNSON
Ricky PIERCE aka SLOW MOTION for me....SMOOTH.....OLD MAN'S Game

The SONICS went 63-19 that year and stayed on top of the WESTERN CONFERENCE all the way to meeting the 1995-1996 BULLS....the 72-10 BULLS.....the 4 Hall Of FAMERS on the ROSTER BULLS. They put up a FIGHT led by KEMP, PAYTON, and SCHREMPF.......but to No Evail....they lost in 6.

DETLEF had his best years the CITY by the PUGET SOUND........3-Time ALL-Star for the SONICS and plenty of memories as he played HS and COLLEGE in the STATE of WASHINGTON.

GEREMANY has had some of the BEST ATHLETES in WORLD like DIRK NOWITZKI, Katarina WITT, Jurgen KLINSMANN, Boris BECKER, and Michael SCHUMACHER. And not saying DETLEF was one of the best ATHLETES ever in GERMANY...but he is their 2nd BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER behind the DIGGLER DIRK.....and they both STARTED in BIG D.

OTHER GERMAN NBA PLAYERS

Uwe BLAB INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Christian WELP UW SEATTLE Teammate of DETLEF
NOTE: Both BLAB and WELP were 7' Centers