It’s been a while coming but Dirk Nowitzki finally made his return to Dallas practice – participating in his first full session since undergoing arthoscopic surgery in mid-October. The initial timetable for his return had been about 6-weeks but the German has been in no rush to return, preferring to opt until he is 100 percent before making his return. Despite completing the session Nowitzki still does not expect to return to the Mavs lineup before Christmas.
Nowitzki added that he would not object to coming off the bench until he gets back into game shape.
“We’ll just see how it goes,” said Nowitzki, who underwent the operation Oct. 19. “This is the first day stopping, pushing off, moving. We’ll see how it reacts. I’m going to do that a couple times, and do some contact for a while. Maybe any time after Christmas, that’ll be fun.
“That’s something I guess we need to talk about when it gets to that point, I’m not opposed to obviously coming off the bench at the beginning and slowly finding my rhythm, but I think that’s something we need to talk about when it gets closer. We haven’t addressed that yet, but it’s obvious I’m not going to play 35 minutes my first game out.”
