WHILE NBA STARS KEEP RETIRING, DIRK NOWITZKI CONTINUES HIS UNPRECEDENTED RUN

Wrote about Dirk Nowitzki. An excerpt:

What Nowitzki is doing at his age, at his size, is quite literally unprecedented. In NBA history there have been 17 seasons where a player 6'10'’ or taller, aged 30 or older, has attempted at least 100 three-pointers and 500 two-pointers and connected on at least 44 percent of his tries from the field and 35 percent of his tries from three. Eight of those seasons belong to Nowitzki, who has now done it every single season since turning 30.

His mere presence on the court, along with the warlock wizardry of the great Rick Carlisle, has been enough to carry the Dallas Mavericks to the playoffs in all but one of those seasons — the exception being the year where Nowitzki himself missed 29 games. Even with a revolving group of castoffs at nearly every spot around him in the lineup during that time, Nowitzki has consistently been, well, consistent. He just keeps picking and popping and posting and toasting and letting fly with that high-arching jumper, then watching it splash through the net before casually jogging back on defense.

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