Congratulations to Dirk Nowitzki

Member of the NBA's 20,000 point club as of about 45 minutes ago. He was the 19th quickest in NBA history to reach that sacred plateau.

But I'm sure he'd probably give back those points if it meant a win tonight. Instead, the Mavs fell 100-95 to the Lake Show in front of a packed house at the AAC. Most of whom rooted for the Mavs, a few of whom were honest to goodness lifetime Laker fans...and then have asshats like this guy.

Hat tip to Bob Sturm for the upload. In case you can't tell, this jackass is wearing a Bulls hat backwards and a Lakers sweatshirt. Like Mike Fisher said, he probably had on a Patriots and Cowboys sock, Yankees wristband, and...OK, Mike, the Habs don't have that much of a bandwagon fanbase here in Dallas. Probably was wearing Red Wings panties.

Anyway, this may or may not have been his method of transportation to tonight's game.

It reminds me of somebody I used to know who rooted for the Yankees, Red Wings, Lakers, and Packers.

Seriously.

And no, I don't consider myself a bandwagon fan. My fandom of the Red Sox goes back to 1986, bitches.

Back on track, I knew this game was lost when Erick Dampier found himself all alone under the bucket and couldn't convert on what should have been an 'and one' with about 21 seconds to go. Damp's a 58% free throw shooter. That fact alone boggles my mind.

Seriously, this is the NBA. How is it that you can only hit 58% of your free throws?

On this particular trip, Damp couldn't even hit one free throw and the Mavs still trailed by 2. Andrew Bynum left the door open by only hitting 1 of 2, but Josh Howard couldn't take advantage of some nice ball rotation that left him wide open for a potential game tying three. J-Ho clanked it off the front end of the rim, the Lakers rebounded, and Jordan Farmar salted the game away.

Don't look now, but the Mavs and Spurs are even in the loss column. San Antonio, as they are always wont to do, started slow but have slowly gathered some chemistry and steam. They don't show any signs of going away in the second half of the season.

And if the Mavs don't take care of business on Friday against the Thunder, they'll finish up this homestand with an ugly 0-3 mark.

[Update] And if they do lose on Friday to OKC, they'll be a very average 12-8 at home. Championship teams don't go 12-8 at home. They don't even go 12-7, either.

I didn't even realize the Mavs were so poor at home until Mike Fisher pointed it out over at DB.com.