Dirk Nowitzki’s retirement: Who we are is more important than what we do
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 12 April 2019
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR APRIL 12, 2019
Character is more important than achievements. Today's podcast explores this fact and invites us to solidarity with our culture that exhibits the compassion of God to our world.
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| 0:00.0 | Dirk Novitsky's retirement. Who we are is more important than what we do. This is Dr. Jim |
| 0:07.3 | Dinniswins, the Daily Article podcast for Friday, April 12th, 2019. Dirk Novitsky of the Dallas |
| 0:12.6 | Mavericks retired from the NBA Wednesday night. I don't normally write on Dallas-centric sports |
| 0:17.5 | news, recognizing that we have more than 170,000 daily article readers |
| 0:21.5 | and listeners in 203 countries, and most of them probably care less about my local sports |
| 0:26.3 | team than I do. But Dirk's story transcends Dallas and the NBA. In fact, it makes a point |
| 0:31.9 | worth considering for everyone who follows Jesus. Novitsky was undoubtedly one of the greatest |
| 0:36.4 | players in NBA history. |
| 0:38.3 | A league champion in finals MVP, league MVP, 14-time All-Star, and the sixth leading |
| 0:44.3 | scorer of all time. |
| 0:45.3 | He played 21 years with the same franchise, which is a record as well. |
| 0:49.3 | The San Antonio Spurs, the team he played in his last NBA game, showed a video tribute in his honor. |
| 0:55.0 | A rival coach stopped the game in Los Angeles and called on fans to pay homage to him. |
| 0:58.9 | But the adulation he has received in Dallas and across basketball is about much more than what he did on the court. |
| 1:04.4 | While Dirk's salary was lucrative, he took pay cut so his team could try to sign other players. |
| 1:08.9 | He cared about the locker room attendance wherever the Mavericks played. And as many unpublicized hospital trips to visit children, who called him |
| 1:15.6 | Uncle Dirk, were just part of his commitment to his community. The Washington Post celebrated his |
| 1:20.5 | loyalty to his team and city. A writer in Washington, D.C. praised him for his humility. And at his |
| 1:26.1 | retirement ceremony in Dallas, Charles |
| 1:27.6 | Barkley called him the nicest man ever. It was Dirk Davitsky's humility and service off the court, |
| 1:33.1 | even more than his athletic achievements on it, that endeared him to sports fans across the country, |
| 1:38.4 | as he reminds us who we are is more important than what we do. The Washington Post was reporting |
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