Dirk Nowitzki knows he’s nearing the end of his NBA career, and he has an idea of how he’d like to go out.
Nowitzki spoke to SI’s Beyond the Baseline podcast and when asked if he’d rather go out like Kobe Bryant or Tim Duncan, the Mavs big man had an interesting response.
“You know, I loved the way Kobe went out … with a 60-point game? That’s so Kobe like,” Nowitzki said, via SportsDay. “The whole arena was standing up the whole fourth quarter. So much fun to watch. But I’m more like a Duncan guy. More a quiet guy. I don’t need the limelight as much. Maybe not quite the just e-mail, Hey, by the way Tim Duncan is retiring. I thought that was a little low profile. Maybe there’s a little press conference or something. I don’t know, I don’t really want to think about it because I know it’s gonna come up soon anyway. I’m just gonna enjoy the last couple of years.
Duncan retired as quietly as he played. Nowitzki is known as a quiet guy who goes about his business, so it’s not a big surprise that he’d prefer to take the Duncan route into the sunset.
