Dirk will reach 30,000 points this season

Julius Erving, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That’s a fine list of basketball royalty all with one thing in common: 30,000 points. One name that will be added to that list in the near future is Dirk Nowitzki.

Dirk is a mere 342 points from that 30k milestone, and during what feels like one of the more forgettable Maverick seasons, this moment will likely be the absolute peak of the 2016-17 campaign.

After suiting up and playing in 13 games this season, Dirk is averaging only a little under 13 points per game. This is well below his career average of 22 PPG, but it is slightly closer to what we have seen from him in the last few years. With…