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Nowitzki chosen among 75 best-ever as league celebrates 75 years
NBA championship winner in 2011, Most Valuable Player in 2007 and 14-time All Star Dirk Nowitzki spoke to a group of journalists over a conference call on being named among the best 75 who have played in the league as it commemorates its 75th year.
Nowitzki was one of only six international players in the list and his achievements — 31,560 points for sixth place among scorers in particular — ensured that his inclusion was a no-brainer.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.