A poor judge of character — but maybe not THAT poor

That Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki has a woman living with him who has multiple aliases does not speak well for his judgment. Neither does the report that he asked the woman, “Cristal Taylor,” to marry him. Neither does the report the woman is pregnant.

On the other hand, somebody — either Nowitzki or his lawyers — hired a private investigator to probe into Taylor’s background, a move that resulted in the discovery of the aliases and a visit to Nowitski’s house by the gendarmes, who came to evict Taylor and arrest her on a fraud warrant.

All this while Nowitski was in Denver, where the Mavs were losing the first two games of their second-round playoff series against the Nuggets.

Upon his return to Dallas, Nowitski was closed-mouthed about his relationship with Taylor, aka Chrystal Ann Taylor, Crystal Ann Taylor, Debra Johnson, Shana Mancini, Krista Santiago, Crystal Ann Santiago, Cristal Westerhaus and Crista A. Westerhays.

A friend of Taylor’s (I mean Johnson’s, I mean Mancini’s, I mean …) said Nowitski knew the woman had a checkered past, just not how checkered.