Dirk Nowitzki or Rik Smits? Rik Smits or Dirk Nowitzki? Those questions caused some confusion to one man, who mixed the two former NBA players up while at a restaurant, according to Nowitzki. "Walked ...

Rik Smits spent over a decade in the NBA with the Indiana Pacers, where he was affectionately known as "The Dunking Dutchman." Eleven years removed from his final NBA game, his nickname might need to ...

It is pretty hard to mistake 7-foot Basketball Hall of Famer Dirk Nowitzki for someone else, but one fan apparently managed to pull it off this week. The Dallas Mavericks great Nowitzki shared a funny ...

Long after he sank his last hoop for Marist College, even following a dozen years in the NBA, Rik Smits still looked for some action. So when the former Red Fox was living in upstate Walton, he’d ...

The Indiana Pacers haven't been to the finals since 2000, when Jalen Rose, Reggie Miller and Rik Smits carried them into a matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers. They lost in six games as center ...

No one was particularly surprised after 12 NBA seasons and an assortment of chronic injuries to watch former Pacers center Rik Smits ramble off into the sunset. It's just that no one expected the ...

Rik Smits is in a Pacers sweatshirt, which is curious because he left his home in sun-drenched Arizona and is renting a house in Whitestown just so he can be at every Butler basketball game to watch ...

Pacers fans had the chance to interact with one of the most beloved players in franchise history on Friday afternoon, as Rik Smits took over the @Pacers Twitter account to answer fan questions. The ...

It used to be a “once-in-a-long-time kind of thing,” Derrik Smits said, that he could beat his dad on the basketball court. Now 52 and 2 inches taller than his 7-foot-2 son, former NBA All-Star Rik ...