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Nowitzki retires from international basketball

Xinhua, January 24, 2016 Adjust font size:

Dallas Mavericks veteran Dirk Nowitzki announced on Sunday that he wouldn't play for the German national team any more.

The star player said Germany's 77-76 Euro 2015 loss to Spain on September 10 was his last match for the country.

Nowitzki, who helped the Mavericks win the NBA title in 2011, played 153 times for Germany and scored a total of 3,045 points. Endi