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Seventeen years into legendary career, Dirk Nowitzki still has passion to get better

Dirk Nowitzki has been doing this a long, long time.

But even after 17 years, Nowitzki hasn’t lost his passion for putting in the time and effort that took him from a skinny Euro-player to one of the all-time NBA legends.

He’s still the last one off the practice court and loves returning in the evening to get more shots up.

“It’s go in the lab, every day – that’s how you look at it,” Nowitzki said. “To me, my whole career is always a mindset of ‘When I had a good game, I had to go in the gym the next day.