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Dirk Nowitzki forgets to shoot

by Jonathan Tjarks
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Over the course of his 15-year NBA career, Dirk Nowitzki has taken literally hundreds of thousands of jump shots in practice and in games.

That’s what makes this “shot attempt” on Sunday, courtesy of cjzero, so bewildering:

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We’ll just chalk it up to a senior moment.

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