There are many folks rooting for Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki to score 20 points tonight so he can reach 30,000 points for his career.
Right up there among those rooting for the special occasion to occur tonight is Donnie Nelson, the Mavs’ president of basketball operations.
Nelson is one of the men who recruited Nowitzki back in 1998 and is partly responsible for the 7-footer joining the Mavericks. But if Nowitzki scores 19 points or less tonight when the Mavericks (26-36) host the Los Angeles Lakers (19-44) at 7:30 at American Airlines Center, that likely won’t sit well with Nelson.