<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">Nowitzki Holds His Punches</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Nov 9</span> - Dirk Nowitzki didn't throw any punches Thursday night. But he did admit that he grew so frustrated during the Mavericks' first-round playoff exit that he threw a trash can against the wall outside the Mavericks' locker room.</p> </p> "Yeah, I tossed something and knocked a hole in the wall," Nowitzki said. "That stuff happens."</p> </p> Did the Warriors send him a bill for the damages?</p> </p> "I never heard anything from them," he said. "I guess they let me off the hook or they may have not seen who it was." -- <font color="#000000">Dallas Morning News</font></p> </p> </p> [*]"If I'm Dallas, I gotta start a fight," Magic Johnson said. "No, I'm serious. If I'm Dallas, Dirk has gotta go swing on somebody. Send a message. You know why? Golden State, as we say on the street, punked them. ... This game, if I'm Dirk, I will walk up and just smack somebody." </p> Nowitzki, shown the video while taping a segment for TNT's online channel, didn't seem too keen on the idea.</p> </p> "Well, you know, that's not really my kind of mentality," Nowitzki said. -- <font color="#000000">Contra Costa Times</font></p></div> </div>
