Dirk Nowitzki really doesn’t look like he’s lost much as he goes through his 18th season in the NBA. He’s still getting buckets, averaging just below 19 points a game, can still get boards here and there.
I’m beginning to think that he just said that his current contract will be his last simply because he thought he would’ve ran out of juice by then, I guess he’s surprising himself more than anybody. In a recent interview with ESPN Radio, he’s beginning to look at the historic 2 decade mark.
Although he stressed that he wouldn’t make a firm decision until after completing the 2016-17 campaign, Nowitzki said on ESPN Radio’s “NBA Insiders” show that playing an even “20 years would sound really, really great.”
Currently in his 18th season, Nowitzki said, “My goal was when I signed this three-year deal to fulfill that contract. And so if I play next year through, by that point I’ll be 39. To be honest, 20 years [in the NBA] would sound really, really great. And next year would obviously be my 19th year, so maybe after this next year I could sign on one more. But I’ll just have to wait and see, I think, at this point.”
“This season I felt good. Next year we’ll see how it goes and then I can make that decision with my family, with [longtime shooting coach and mentor] Holger Geschwindner and all my guys that have been working with me for so long … I can make that decision if I play one more season.“
With the Kobe clock reaching the final grains of sand in the hourglass, Dirk Nowitzki seems to be continously adding more bags of sand as he goes along. It’s quite remarkable.
He’s 6th All-Time in scoring and Wilt Chamberlain is in reach, we truly won’t recognise this greatness until it’s gone, he’s practically the evolutionary blueprint for the modern power forward, he gets the job done. He’s a human BMW, a fleshy Mercedes-Benz. The epitome of German engineering.
