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Man Up

By Ric Bucher

Monday, October 6, 2008

What endures is the snapshot of Dirk Nowitzki sitting at the end of the Mavs' bench, head down, body turned slightly away from his teammates. He's squeezing a basketball with both hands as if he were trying to choke it into telling him where his game has gone. Nowitzki knows how much his teammates count on him, and he is overcome with the realization that right now, in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the rainbow threes and tear-drop fallaways his fellow Mavericks have rallied around have suddenly aban ...

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