“So I first heard about him when he was in college in Arizona,” Nowitzki was saying last week as he stepped outside the Mavericks weight room into a quiet hallway. “We had tons of people here (with the Mavericks) who said, ‘Have you watched this Finnish kid?’ And I said, ‘No, I haven’t heard of him.’ And I watched a half somewhere on the road. I was surprised how well he moves at that size, how easy he shoots it. He’s way more athletic than you think. I really liked what I saw.