It’s Nowitzki or never for the Mavericks

THE NEWS spread like wildfire during the third quarter of Tuesday night’s NBA Finals Game Four.

Dirk Nowitzki was playing with a temperature of 101°F.

So that explained it then. The German-born Dallas Mavericks star had been below par in those three quarters, struggling to make his shots and stack up points like he had been in the previous three games of a fascinating series against the Miami Heat.