Wow.
It doesn’t get much classier than that.
With nine seconds left in the Dallas Mavericks’ loss to the LA Clippers Monday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Clippers coach Doc Rivers called a timeout.
Typically, with a team up by nine with 9.4 seconds remaining, that would get a groan from just about everyone.
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But not this time. Rivers went to the scorers table and grabbed the public address microphone to extol the greatness of Dirk Nowitzki and urged the Clippers crowd to salute the 40-year-old legend.