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Nowitzki tops Shaq as Mavs top Nets
Nowitzki spoiled a wild Nets comeback and finished with 22 points, passing Shaquille O’Neal for sixth place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list with 28,609 points.
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The Dallas Mavericks were able to hold on for a 119-118 overtime victory against the Brooklyn Nets despite being without starting point guard Deron Williams, who would have been making his return to Barclays for the first time as an opponent.
Wilt Chamberlain is fifth with 31,419 points.
There were two guards that were top-5 National Basketball Association draft selections that set career-highs in scoring with the Brooklyn Nets at Barclay’s Center.
Nowitzki has one NBA championship to his name (2011), as well as one NBA Most Valuable Player award (2007) and is a 13-time NBA All-Star.
“It’s cool. There’s a lot of people, I guess, who aren’t built for New York”, Williams said.
“You’re talking about a guy who’s a generational great player”, Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said. The Mavericks offense turned into the proverbial pumpkin, shooting 37% from the field including 1-of-8 from three, as the Nets roared back in the third quarter. Nowitzki’s historic moment will rightfully dominate the headlines – oh yeah, he hit the game-winner, too – but Barea’s spectacular performance won’t go unnoticed, either.
The other players who have scored more career points than Nowitzki: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. They way we’ve played for six quarters, you know these last games, roughly is how we want to play out the rest of the season. “It’s just such a tremendous feat and such a tremendous individual”. “I’m really happy for him”.
Historically, Brook Lopez has feasted on the Mavericks, averaging 20+ ppg in 11 games vs. Dallas. Power forward Thaddeus Young is also thriving and he has seven double-doubles in the past 10 games after recording 16 points and 13 rebounds against Chicago.BUZZER BEATERS1.
It’s a career that centered on Nowitzki going back home to Germany every off-season, and coming back to Dallas with a new wrinkle added to his game. The problem is that those two guards, Devin Harris and Deron Williams, both missed this game.
“He’s probably the most dominant big man to ever play this game, so it’s kind of surreal that I’m up there amongst these all-time greats”, Nowitzki said earlier this week as reported by ESPN. You could see a difference on the court, the way they played, did all of this and did all of that. We just have to win basketball games.
Barea finished with 32 points and a season-high 11 assists.
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Dirk Nowitzki talked about how much it meant to him, after working so hard, so long to get it. The victory, not the milestone.