ORLANDO – Fawning players all across the NBA have turned jersey swapping into a nightly postgame occurrence this season, asking and receiving a lasting memento from retiring Miami Heat legend Dwyane Wade in the form of his No. 3 jersey.
If fellow future Hall of Famer Dirk Nowitzki is at the end of the line himself as an NBA player, Orlando Magic all-star center Nikola Vucevic won’t need to pester his boyhood idol after Friday’s game for a No. 41 jersey because of some proactive work he did in recent years.
``I already have Dirk’s jersey,’’ Vucevic said of one of his most prized, autographed possessions from his time in the NBA.