Dirk Nowitzki often wishes he had stopped a year or, better yet, two years earlier. “Then I could probably move around better and play football with my kids,” he said some time ago in the Felix and Toni Kroos podcast. “That’s no longer possible at all.” Nowitzki had played at world level for more than two decades, holding out his bones in 1,667 high-intensity games full of scuffles against 100-pound men in the NBA, plus 141 with the national team. He rarely allowed himself breaks. Dirk Nowitzki has been retired since the end of 2019, but all of his cartilage is damaged, one foot and both knees are gone. Despite almost superhuman discipline in training and nutrition, yoga, massages, and and and. Typical sports invalid.
2024-03-05 08:17:00
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