Dirk Nowitzki - Career Highlights

Career Highlights

NBA

• NBA Champion: 2011
• NBA Most Valuable Player: 2007
• NBA Finals MVP: 2011
• 11× NBA All-Star: 2002–2012
• 12× All-NBA Team: 2001–2012
  • 4× First Team: 2005–2007, 2009
  • 5× Second Team: 2002–2003, 2008, 2010–2011
  • 3× Third Team: 2001, 2004, 2012
• Three-Point Shootout Champion: 2006
• 2× Western Conference champion: 2006, 2011
• First European player in the starting five of an All-Star-Game: 2007
• Only player in the NBA with 150 three-pointers and 100 blocks in a single season: 2001
• One of only four players with an NBA Playoff career average of 25 ppg and 10 rpg (25.9 ppg, 10.3 rpg, May 5, 2012)
• One of only five players to become a member of the 50–40–90 Club: 2007
• One of eleven players to have been NBA Champion, NBA regular season MVP, NBA Finals MVP and a 10× NBA All-Star
• One of only three players to surpass the mark of 1000 in both three-pointers and blocks for the career
• Holds the record for most free-throws made in a single playoff season with 205 free-throws made: 2006
• In Game 1 of the 2011 Western Conference Finals, he set a playoff record for most free throws made without a miss with 24
• On October 29, 2010, Nowitzki's free-throw streak came to an end at 82, when he missed a free-throw against Memphis. Since then he holds the record for the third longest free-throw streak in NBA history.
• Dallas Mavericks all-time statistical leader in games, points, rebounds, field goals, three-point field goals and free throws

German national basketball team

• 2002 FIBA World Championship: bronze medal, MVP, top scorer, all-tournament team
• EuroBasket 2005: silver medal, MVP, top scorer, all-tournament team
• 2006 FIBA World Championship, EuroBasket 2001, EuroBasket 2007: top scorer, all-tournament team
• Goldener Ehrenring (golden honorary ring) of the DBB (German Basketball Federation): 2007
• Second best scorer (983 points) in the history of EuroBasket (September 2011)
• Best scorer in the history of the German national basketball team (2912 points in 141 international games, September 2011)
• Member of the German national basketball team which was voted Outstanding German Team of the Year: 2005

Other achievements and highlights

• MVP of German Basketball Bundesliga: 1999
• 9× European Basketball Player of the Year Awards
  • 6× Euroscar: 2002–2006, 2011
  • 2× FIBA Europe Player of the Year Award: 2005, 2011
  • Mr. Europa: 2005
• German national flag bearer at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China
• Best NBA Player ESPY Award: 2011
• Best Male Athlete ESPY Award: 2011
• Outstanding Team ESPY Award with the Dallas Mavericks: 2011
• Sports Illustrated NBA All-Decade Second Team (2000–2009)
• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt: 2011
• German Sportspersonality of the Year: 2011