If you’ve been on social media over the past 24 hours, you will have noticed an absolute glut of digitally altered images of friends, family, celebrities and anyone with a face made to look older than they are.
Via an app called FaceApp, which uses neural network technology to generate highly realistic transformations of faces, seemingly everyone with a phone has been playing with this new feature in order to see how they – and others – will look as they age.
As expected, this trend hit the NBA world at full force. Multiple teams and various Twitter personalities employed the FaceApp old-age filter to great effect, including the Dallas Mavericks.
Here’s what our players will look like in their older years… pic.twitter.com/cecLNUygO1
— Dallas Mavericks (@dallasmavs) July 16, 2019
As you can see, the Mavs used the filter to make young players such as rookie Isaiah Roby, reigning Rookie of the Year Luka Doncic and recently acquired Kristaps Porzingis look much older than they actually are.
However, sprinkled among those sprightly youngsters is an image of 41-year-old Dirk Nowitzki, whose visage is presented unedited. Get it?
Almost all NBA teams have terrific Twitter accounts that are helmed with singularity personality, and the Mavs’ account is no exception. Putting regular Dirk in with aged photos of Luka, KP and Roby is a true masterstroke that deserves some props.
While this might not truly be fair to Nowitzki, who aged extremely well despite playing a huge amount of minutes throughout his career, surely Dirk appreciated this gentle jab and let out a hearty guffaw upon taking a gander at it.
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