September 15, 2025 • 10 mins
In this unforgettable episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray take you courtside to one of the most heartwarming and hilarious events in Dallas — the Dirk Nowitzki Foundation’s 7th Annual Celebrity Tennis Classic.From Dirk dunking on a wobbly driveway hoop to Steve Nash trash-talking an 8-year-old, this episode is packed with moments that are equal parts touching and laugh-out-loud funny. The crew gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the playful rivalry between Team Dirk and Team Nash, the surprise appearance of Cooper Flagg, and the adorable doubles match featuring Dirk’s sons vs. Uncle Steve.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The thing's big, That's right, Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It was a big weekend for the Ben and Skin
show because Ben and I were lucky enough to go
to the Dirk Noavichki Foundation seventh Annual Celebrity Tennis Classic
held in Dallas at the Banner House and Tbarm Tennis
and Racket Club and Benny.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It was awesome, Yeah, it was. It was great.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know, the I think more people are familiar with
Dirk's Heroes celebrity baseball game, which used to take place at.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know Dr.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Pepperfield or rough Rider Field in Frisco, just because it's
a bigger you know, I think it was like twelve
thousand people. But I think the tennis event is a
better overall event, more bang for your buck to like
enjoy Dirk, right, Yeah, because Dirk is miked up the
whole time. He loves tennis. It's a you know, it's
not as expansive as being at a big giant ballpark,
(00:58):
and you know, him and naw are basically talking trash
to each other the entire day and it's just such
a fun vibe.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, the thing has evolved.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know, when it first started, it was at this
SMU Tennis complex, and there was like four tennis matches
going on at once out in the sun on a
September and so there it was just a lot going on.
So they've changed it over the years and now there's
just one court and there's you know, it's indoors, and
(01:25):
the hearing situation is better, like the listening situation is better.
And so Dirk and Nash and different people at different
times are miked up. And so it's team Nash versus
Team Dirk. And there's celebrities involved, some former tennis players,
some current tennis players, but the whole thing is kind
of based on Dirk going against Nash and both of
(01:47):
them grew up with tennis. Dirk loves tennis. He can't
move the way he used to. But Nashi is out there,
and man, Steve Nash is pretty damn good at tennis
and still can move around great. Yeah, And you know
there's there, you know, you can see the difference between
there's like legit tennis players like Corb Korby was out there, yeah,
(02:07):
and which was cool. From the hard line, I thought
he did great, did great. Kobe Cotton from Dude Perfect
was out there, and I thought he did great. You
could tell that he played games growing up. And then
when you see the real tennis players, it's it's night
and day, like they're just hammering the ball. But I
agree with you, Nash is somewhere in between those. Yeah,
he's he's really good. But man, it was this year
(02:29):
they did these different things, like they played knockout. They
rolled out a basketball goal and they played knockout. Uh,
and it you know, watching dirt Dirt dunked the ball.
Dirt dunked and it's one of those goals. It's like
people put in their driveway that's not attached anything that
could come down real easily, and Dirt goes in and
dunks it and it looks like it's coming down, and
(02:51):
then he hangs on the rim to the point where
he's standing on the ground still holding the rim, and
we're just waiting for the whole thing to come down,
and uh, you know it's Dirk is so playful and
like his way of talking trash is like it's so
sweet when he's insulting you to your core, Like he
just does it in such a playful, fun way. And
so it came down to a knockout. It was Dirk
(03:13):
Nash and Kobe Cotton from Dude Perfect. Those are the
three guys. So how's Kobe Cotton gonna beat two Hall
of Famers in a game of knockout?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He acquitted himself very well. It is.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
He wasn't gonna beat Nash, but he acquitted himself very
very well. While they're playing the game, Dirk is blocking shots,
pushing him, messing with him, straight garbage. And it's so
funny too, because he's not He's not putting on a
show for everybody. You could tell. That's just how he is.
And the best stuff is so he's really tight with
(03:44):
Devin Harris. And Devin was out there and hadn't played
in several years but came back and I thought Devin
played well. But like they're doing doubles and he's on
Dirk's team and devil say, Dirk Will says, I'm like,
you got this, and then Devin Will missed a shot
and go, oh that's terrible, That's okay, You're still my
guy though.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's just it's so good.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But the thing that, like, you know, sometimes you can't
write a script better than the way it ends up.
And so Ben and I have the mat sheet and
we're and by the way, they kept it moving like
it never rolled. And I think people are super excited
that Cooper Flagg was there. Yeah, he didn't actually play tennis,
but he hung out and he had had his wisdom
teeth pulled and so for him to show up and
(04:27):
still be there for the crowd, and at one point
he couldn't help it, and he picked up a racket
whenever them started hitting with Coco Vandaway, whose dad was
a legendary NBA or her uncle, Kiki Vandawat was a
legendary player and she was a pro and now she's
a commentator. But he's out there hitting with her because
he just can't stand it right. It's like activity is happening.
He's got to pick up a racket. But Ben and
(04:49):
I looked down at the mat sheet and Dirk's got
three kids. Their ages I think are twelve, ten and eight,
and the two boys are ten and eight, and on
the mat sheet it said as Daddy, Dirk and Max
versus Uncle Steve and Morris. And so the whole crowd
watches as Morris, his eight year old, goes out there
(05:12):
with Nash and plays double against his dad and his
older brother Max, and man it, I'm not even being
corny dad, Like, it was so awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I can't even really do it. I can't do it justice.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It was one of the most fun things to watch
because it was fun, it was funny, it was adorable.
Dirk's son Max, he was just trying so hard not
to smile, like when you watch a kid that's having
fun and he knows everybody's looking at him, Like his
face was fighting the smile.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It was so great. And his boys are really good
at tennis.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
They both played tennis there at that facility at t
Barn Banner House, and yeah, it was almost like, you know,
because Nash and Dirk are so close, it was almost
like we all got to be a part of something
they might just do on any other Saturday. That's a
great point. And so it's like getting to go behind
the curtain and see what their lives. And because Nash
and Dirk were miked up, they're also talking trash and
(06:10):
like he's talking to his son Morris, right, I'm coming
for you, I'm coming at you and yeah, and then
Nash is telling him go at your old man, he
can't move or whatever they're making And I said go
at your dad. Always attack the weakest link. Yeah, and
everyone gets to hear this.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, no one gets here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And then it got kind of close and Dirk is
giving his son Max like instruction in German.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yes, speaking to him in German, and I'm like, oh
my god, this is so cool, Like I wonder what
he's telling him. Yeah, because obviously had I had no idea.
Nash doesn't know whatever he's told him. It was. It
was really fun.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And so also Dirk is kind of like being the
dad and thinking about the event, and so he's going, Okay,
well the matches go to ten, and he's like, all right,
we'll just go to seven.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Let's just go to seven.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And they get halfway into it, and Nash can tell
how bunch of kids are into it. He goes, We're
going to ten, Like Nash change the rules because of
the way the boys were reacting. It was just it's
just so unique to have access to a moment like that,
and the whole crowd got it. I got something for
you too. So there is a silent auction attached to
this and it goes on for the rest of the week.
(07:19):
And one of the things you can do is, you know,
you can do a private I think you can play
doubles tennis with him and Nash and do things like that.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But there's also a dinner at Nick and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Sam's and I think you and I need to bid
ten grand on it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Where are we going to get that money? Ten grand?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like, like, I think the high bid right now is
seventy five hundred. But didn't you see wasn't there a
dinner with Suka and Dirk that went for five hundred
grand or something? It went for six figures. I don't
remember the exact number, but that was a situation where
that was at the MAVs Foundation event MAVs Ball and
there was super high rollers bidding against one another, and
wasn't Cuban one of the high rollers? And then the
(07:59):
guy came in Galliam blaken on his name. They did
another the base. They just said once they got up
so high, they were like, hey, can you do two
of them?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And Dirk and Luca were like, yeah, we'll do two.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, But I don't know, Like I'm this one's only
at seventy five hundred, and I know that's a lot
of money, but I think for this, but I think
for this, you know, dinner with Dirk at Nick and Sam's.
I think we should bid ten grand and then like
do it as a giveaway, yeah, like give our give
it to our listeners where they get to cut. Like
I gotta look, I think it's eight people get to go.
(08:28):
Yeah is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah? Yeah people dinner dinner with Dirk and Nick and Sam's.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
A thousand of person will get you up to eight thousand,
top that seventy five hundred bid, right, if you're gonna
need to get to ten, you don't want to barely
beat the bid because that's on your your name.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We're gonna think you're cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So but eight people, I don't can't do the math
on the fly there, Man, I'm going for like thirty bucks, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I get okay, good for thirty There's a funny moment
so at So they did like an after party thing
and one of the entertain it was the legendary DJ
from Salt and Pepa Spinderella, because she lives in Dallas
now and I saw her every time. I'm seeing her
a couple times because she DJ's out and every time
I think, man, I got a really funny picture of
(09:12):
very young KT and very young Jeff Kavanaugh hanging out
with Spinderella. I don't think either one of them have
any idea who she is, did you, Yeah, that's why
we took the picture, okay, But also you know I
was told yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Well, anyways, thank you to the dirt Novitzky Foundation for
having us. We always have a really good time. I'll
never forget though, that time that KT did take that
picture with Spinderella. He looked her dead in her famous eyes,
and he said, it's good to think about the past.
You know, as you get older, you realize that time flies.
And that meant a lot to her. Christina, you gonna
(09:47):
stick around and play music.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
All right. We got little baby gorm.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Bread sticking around and playing music till ten o'clock right
here on the eagle.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
There you going. So I'm gonna get some cheeks after this.
Horse powerge joint art
The thing's big, That's right, Cynthia.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
It was a big weekend for the Ben and Skin
show because Ben and I were lucky enough to go
to the Dirk Noavichki Foundation seventh Annual Celebrity Tennis Classic
held in Dallas at the Banner House and Tbarm Tennis
and Racket Club and Benny.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It was awesome, Yeah, it was. It was great.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
You know, the I think more people are familiar with
Dirk's Heroes celebrity baseball game, which used to take place at.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You know Dr.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Pepperfield or rough Rider Field in Frisco, just because it's
a bigger you know, I think it was like twelve
thousand people. But I think the tennis event is a
better overall event, more bang for your buck to like
enjoy Dirk, right, Yeah, because Dirk is miked up the
whole time. He loves tennis. It's a you know, it's
not as expansive as being at a big giant ballpark,
(00:58):
and you know, him and naw are basically talking trash
to each other the entire day and it's just such
a fun vibe.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, the thing has evolved.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know, when it first started, it was at this
SMU Tennis complex, and there was like four tennis matches
going on at once out in the sun on a
September and so there it was just a lot going on.
So they've changed it over the years and now there's
just one court and there's you know, it's indoors, and
(01:25):
the hearing situation is better, like the listening situation is better.
And so Dirk and Nash and different people at different
times are miked up. And so it's team Nash versus
Team Dirk. And there's celebrities involved, some former tennis players,
some current tennis players, but the whole thing is kind
of based on Dirk going against Nash and both of
(01:47):
them grew up with tennis. Dirk loves tennis. He can't
move the way he used to. But Nashi is out there,
and man, Steve Nash is pretty damn good at tennis
and still can move around great. Yeah, And you know
there's there, you know, you can see the difference between
there's like legit tennis players like Corb Korby was out there, yeah,
(02:07):
and which was cool. From the hard line, I thought
he did great, did great. Kobe Cotton from Dude Perfect
was out there, and I thought he did great. You
could tell that he played games growing up. And then
when you see the real tennis players, it's it's night
and day, like they're just hammering the ball. But I
agree with you, Nash is somewhere in between those. Yeah,
he's he's really good. But man, it was this year
(02:29):
they did these different things, like they played knockout. They
rolled out a basketball goal and they played knockout. Uh,
and it you know, watching dirt Dirt dunked the ball.
Dirt dunked and it's one of those goals. It's like
people put in their driveway that's not attached anything that
could come down real easily, and Dirt goes in and
dunks it and it looks like it's coming down, and
(02:51):
then he hangs on the rim to the point where
he's standing on the ground still holding the rim, and
we're just waiting for the whole thing to come down,
and uh, you know it's Dirk is so playful and
like his way of talking trash is like it's so
sweet when he's insulting you to your core, Like he
just does it in such a playful, fun way. And
so it came down to a knockout. It was Dirk
(03:13):
Nash and Kobe Cotton from Dude Perfect. Those are the
three guys. So how's Kobe Cotton gonna beat two Hall
of Famers in a game of knockout?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He acquitted himself very well. It is.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
He wasn't gonna beat Nash, but he acquitted himself very
very well. While they're playing the game, Dirk is blocking shots,
pushing him, messing with him, straight garbage. And it's so
funny too, because he's not He's not putting on a
show for everybody. You could tell. That's just how he is.
And the best stuff is so he's really tight with
(03:44):
Devin Harris. And Devin was out there and hadn't played
in several years but came back and I thought Devin
played well. But like they're doing doubles and he's on
Dirk's team and devil say, Dirk Will says, I'm like,
you got this, and then Devin Will missed a shot
and go, oh that's terrible, That's okay, You're still my
guy though.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
It's just it's so good.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
But the thing that, like, you know, sometimes you can't
write a script better than the way it ends up.
And so Ben and I have the mat sheet and
we're and by the way, they kept it moving like
it never rolled. And I think people are super excited
that Cooper Flagg was there. Yeah, he didn't actually play tennis,
but he hung out and he had had his wisdom
teeth pulled and so for him to show up and
(04:27):
still be there for the crowd, and at one point
he couldn't help it, and he picked up a racket
whenever them started hitting with Coco Vandaway, whose dad was
a legendary NBA or her uncle, Kiki Vandawat was a
legendary player and she was a pro and now she's
a commentator. But he's out there hitting with her because
he just can't stand it right. It's like activity is happening.
He's got to pick up a racket. But Ben and
(04:49):
I looked down at the mat sheet and Dirk's got
three kids. Their ages I think are twelve, ten and eight,
and the two boys are ten and eight, and on
the mat sheet it said as Daddy, Dirk and Max
versus Uncle Steve and Morris. And so the whole crowd
watches as Morris, his eight year old, goes out there
(05:12):
with Nash and plays double against his dad and his
older brother Max, and man it, I'm not even being
corny dad, Like, it was so awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I can't even really do it. I can't do it justice.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It was one of the most fun things to watch
because it was fun, it was funny, it was adorable.
Dirk's son Max, he was just trying so hard not
to smile, like when you watch a kid that's having
fun and he knows everybody's looking at him, Like his
face was fighting the smile.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
It was so great. And his boys are really good
at tennis.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
They both played tennis there at that facility at t
Barn Banner House, and yeah, it was almost like, you know,
because Nash and Dirk are so close, it was almost
like we all got to be a part of something
they might just do on any other Saturday. That's a
great point. And so it's like getting to go behind
the curtain and see what their lives. And because Nash
and Dirk were miked up, they're also talking trash and
(06:10):
like he's talking to his son Morris, right, I'm coming
for you, I'm coming at you and yeah, and then
Nash is telling him go at your old man, he
can't move or whatever they're making And I said go
at your dad. Always attack the weakest link. Yeah, and
everyone gets to hear this.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, no one gets here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And then it got kind of close and Dirk is
giving his son Max like instruction in German.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yes, speaking to him in German, and I'm like, oh
my god, this is so cool, Like I wonder what
he's telling him. Yeah, because obviously had I had no idea.
Nash doesn't know whatever he's told him. It was. It
was really fun.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And so also Dirk is kind of like being the
dad and thinking about the event, and so he's going, Okay,
well the matches go to ten, and he's like, all right,
we'll just go to seven.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Let's just go to seven.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
And they get halfway into it, and Nash can tell
how bunch of kids are into it. He goes, We're
going to ten, Like Nash change the rules because of
the way the boys were reacting. It was just it's
just so unique to have access to a moment like that,
and the whole crowd got it. I got something for
you too. So there is a silent auction attached to
this and it goes on for the rest of the week.
(07:19):
And one of the things you can do is, you know,
you can do a private I think you can play
doubles tennis with him and Nash and do things like that.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
But there's also a dinner at Nick and.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Sam's and I think you and I need to bid
ten grand on it.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Where are we going to get that money? Ten grand?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Like, like, I think the high bid right now is
seventy five hundred. But didn't you see wasn't there a
dinner with Suka and Dirk that went for five hundred
grand or something? It went for six figures. I don't
remember the exact number, but that was a situation where
that was at the MAVs Foundation event MAVs Ball and
there was super high rollers bidding against one another, and
wasn't Cuban one of the high rollers? And then the
(07:59):
guy came in Galliam blaken on his name. They did
another the base. They just said once they got up
so high, they were like, hey, can you do two
of them?
Speaker 1 (08:06):
And Dirk and Luca were like, yeah, we'll do two.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, But I don't know, Like I'm this one's only
at seventy five hundred, and I know that's a lot
of money, but I think for this, but I think
for this, you know, dinner with Dirk at Nick and Sam's.
I think we should bid ten grand and then like
do it as a giveaway, yeah, like give our give
it to our listeners where they get to cut. Like
I gotta look, I think it's eight people get to go.
(08:28):
Yeah is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yeah? Yeah people dinner dinner with Dirk and Nick and Sam's.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
A thousand of person will get you up to eight thousand,
top that seventy five hundred bid, right, if you're gonna
need to get to ten, you don't want to barely
beat the bid because that's on your your name.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We're gonna think you're cheap.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
So but eight people, I don't can't do the math
on the fly there, Man, I'm going for like thirty bucks, right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
I get okay, good for thirty There's a funny moment
so at So they did like an after party thing
and one of the entertain it was the legendary DJ
from Salt and Pepa Spinderella, because she lives in Dallas
now and I saw her every time. I'm seeing her
a couple times because she DJ's out and every time
I think, man, I got a really funny picture of
(09:12):
very young KT and very young Jeff Kavanaugh hanging out
with Spinderella. I don't think either one of them have
any idea who she is, did you, Yeah, that's why
we took the picture, okay, But also you know I
was told yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
All right.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Well, anyways, thank you to the dirt Novitzky Foundation for
having us. We always have a really good time. I'll
never forget though, that time that KT did take that
picture with Spinderella. He looked her dead in her famous eyes,
and he said, it's good to think about the past.
You know, as you get older, you realize that time flies.
And that meant a lot to her. Christina, you gonna
(09:47):
stick around and play music.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
All right. We got little baby gorm.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Bread sticking around and playing music till ten o'clock right
here on the eagle.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
There you going. So I'm gonna get some cheeks after this.
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