NBA

Nowitzki crack for 29,000 points mark

The best German basketball players keep collecting a lot of points and improved his statistics. As the sixth player in the history of the NBA scores Dirk Nowitzki of the 29,000-plus. Point in his career.

The German Basketball Superstar Dirk Nowitzki has the next notable mark in his career in the North American professional League NBA achieved. With his 18 points in 129:103 win of Dallas Mavericks against the Philadelphia 76ers surpassed on Sunday evening (local time), as the sixth player in the NBA history, the 29 000-points mark. Even more successful than Nowitzki was in the game his teammate Wesley Matthews with 21 points. By the 30. Win of the season with 27 defeats left the Mavericks in sixth place in the Western Conference.

Nowitzki plays since 1999 in the NBA, and was this time with the Dallas Mavericks under contract, with which in 2011 the championship was won. In the list of the most’s players of the NBA “followed” is this the Fünftplatzierten Wilt Chamberlain, in his career, on 31.419 points came. Nowitzki has 29.008 points achieved.

asz/sn (dpa, sid)