NBA: tendinitis in the knee: “endurance runner” Nowitzki struck

Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks threatens a break. The Power Forward had to step short last because of a tendinitis in the left knee, his stake in the game on Tuesday at the Sacramento Kings is questionable.

Nowitzki only missed one of 73 games in the current season, “Dirk is a bit banged up,” said Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle. Nowitzki had only completed parts of the training on Monday.

Carlisle is impressed by the fitness of the man from Würzburg. And that at his age, in his 20th year of life. season. I don’t know where the record is. But it can’t be a much larger number of games,” said the head coach. Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar arrived in his 20th year. season, for example, on 74 missions, Kobe Bryant on 66.