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    Dirk Nowitzki #41 of the Dallas Mavericks shoots the ball against the Los Angeles Lakers on March 7, 2017 at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Danny Bollinger/NBAE via Getty Images
    Rhiannon Walker By @InstantRHIplay

    GAME. BLOUSES.

    Going into Tuesday night’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki needed only 20 points to become the sixth player in NBA history to reach 30,000 career points. Not too daunting, right? Not at all. With 10:58 remaining in the second quarter, the 38-year-old reached the milestone on a classic Nowitzki fadeaway. The one-time NBA champion and longtime Maverick finished the game with 25 points.

    Nowitzki joins Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan and Karl Malone as the only players to score 30,000 career points. Bonus points: Nowitzki also helped the Mavericks beat the Lakers, 122-111, in Dallas to keep the team just two games shy of the eighth seed in the Western Conference.

    BLESSINGS

    SOCIAL STATUS

    https://twitter.com/zaralarsson/status/839194779388940288

    https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/839156002809229312

    https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/835524754366816256

    FOR THE CULTURE

    A list of things Muslims have contributed to the world.

    Only 2.7 percent of the 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. have been convicted of felonies.

    Syria’s children are mentally and emotionally shattered from years of war.

    It’ll be years before Flint, Michigan, residents can drink their tap water without filters, according to Flint’s mayor.

    Enslaved Africans do not count as immigrants.

    TOP THREE TWEETS

    1. I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T

    2. BETTER CHEW IT OVER WITH TWIX

    3. WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO?

    ICYMI

    PICTURE PERFECT

    Rhiannon Walker is an associate editor at The Undefeated. She is a drinker of Sassy Cow Creamery chocolate milk, an owner of an extensive Disney VHS collection, and she might have a heart attack if Frank Ocean doesn't drop his second album.

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