[外電] Dirk Nowitzki scores 25,000th point
NEW ORLEANS -- Dirk Nowitzki reached a major milestone before finally using a
razor again Sunday night.
Nowitzki became the 17th member of the NBA's 25,000-point club during the
Mavs' 107-89 win Sunday against the New Orleans Hornets. Then he shaved off
the ridiculously bushy beard he's been growing for more than two months as
part of a pact he made with several teammates not to shave until the Mavs hit
.500 again.
Was it sweeter to shave or to join such historically exclusive company?
"I'm not sure," Nowitzki said with a smile after his 19-point performance
helped the Mavs improve to 40-40. "That's a toss-up."
The 34-year-old Nowitzki definitely wasn't downplaying what he referred to as
"an unbelievable accomplishment," joining the Lakers' Kobe Bryant and the
Celtics' Kevin Garnett as the lone active players with 25,000 career points.
After surpassing the milestone with a midrange jump shot over Hornets center
Robin Lopez at the 6:44 mark of the second quarter, Nowitzki put his right
index finger high in the air as the Mavs' bench erupted in applause.
"I was just happy to get it over with and see the whole bench get up and
salute me," Nowitzki said. "That was a special feeling. Yeah, it was a great
milestone, and like I said, once I look back on my career, this is going to
be special."
After shaving his beard, which he did immediately after getting to the
visitors locker room after the win, Nowitzki reminisced about when he first
arrived in the NBA as a 19-year-old straight out of Wurzburg, Germany. He
struggled as a rookie, uncertain he could make it in the NBA, but credited
former Dallas coach Don Nelson for having confidence in his unconventional
game.
"I think not a lot of coaches, or maybe none, would have had a 7-footer out
there shooting 3s," Nowitzki said. "That was right up his alley, so obviously
that gave me a lot of confidence. The rest is history."
Nowitzki is widely considered the sweetest-shooting 7-footer in NBA history.
He developed into an all-around scoring threat, adding a post-up game, the
ability to drive and an arsenal of fadeaway shots, allowing him to average
22.6 points per game during a 15-year career that has featured 11 All-Star
appearances, an MVP campaign and a Finals MVP award earned when the Mavs won
the 2011 championship.
"He's a player who has revolutionized the game in many ways," Dallas coach
Rick Carlisle said. "He's the only 7-foot-1 guy who has ever played the game
the way he does, and that is by being good around the basket, being great in
midrange and being great a long distance away, driving it, having the ability
to shoot any kind of off-balance shot possible.
"He's not only a great player, he's an innovator and a pioneer in this game.
He'll go down in history as one of the guys that really changed the game."
Nowitzki is one of only nine players in NBA history with at least 25,000
points and 9,000 rebounds, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Wilt
Chamberlain, Shaquille O'Neal, Moses Malone, Elvin Hayes, Hakeem Olajuwon and
Garnett.
This has been the most frustrating season of Nowitzki's career. His recovery
from preseason arthroscopic knee surgery caused him to miss the first 27
games -- three times as many as he'd ever missed in a season -- and was a
major reason why the Mavs' 12-year playoff streak ended.
Nowitzki is averaging 17.2 points per game this season -- his lowest amount
since his rookie year -- and didn't begin feeling like himself until around
the All-Star break. The Mavs fell 10 games below .500 in mid-January, and the
.500 beards pact was made later that month, much to the chagrin of Nowitzki's
newlywed wife, Jessica, whom he joked hasn't kissed him since February.
"I might get a kiss tonight," said the clean-shaven Nowitzki, whose luggage
for the flight home included the ball he put through the hoop for the
25,000-point milestone.
Dirk成為史上17位得到25000分的球員
同時成為歷史上僅有9位: 同時有25000分 9000籃板的球員之一
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