By EDDIE SEFKO DALLAS The highlights began and ended with Dirk Nowitzki surpassing 20,000 points for his career. The rest was an unabridged anthology of how to lose a basketball game that should have been won. Kobe Bryant was gimping around the court 490 2008-12-08T13:46:34-05:00 Its 20,000 for Dirk Nowitzki, but one loss for Dallas Mavericks 1670 --- - !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess byline: "" title: Trade may be needed to get Dallas Mavericks back on course date: FEB 07 url: http://www.star-telegram.com/287/story/1952316.html - !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess byline: "" title: Nowitzki deserved to take seat on bench date: FEB 06 url: http://www.star-telegram.com/287/story/1951162.html 2010-01-14T01:09:00-05:00 567 Fort Worth Star-Telegram http://www.star-telegram.com/287/index.xml 3 13 2010-02-09T21:37:33-05:00 http://www.star-telegram.com/287/story/1892075.html