Barkley recruited Dirk Nowitzki to Auburn

Few people can better turn an NBA yarn than Charles Barkley. Case in point: This linked video, posted this weekend on Dirk Nowitzki's newly launched YouTube stream, of Barkley in the locker room at a celebrity softball tournament. The Round Mound of Rebound recounted the first time he saw Nowitzki, a future Hall of Famer with the Dallas Mavericks, play. Dirk torched "Michael, Scottie, a bunch of guys, like, NBA players" in an international game. Naturally, Barkley immediately tried to (illegally) recruit the 18-year-old German prodigy to play at his alma mater, Auburn.

Source: http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/60722/barkley-recruited-dirk-nowitzki-to-auburn

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