Gary Forbes Impresses in Surprise Start for Nuggets

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DENVER -- Dirk Nowitzki has a seen a lot of basketball. Entering Wednesday, he had played in 923 career NBA games.



He had no clue who the guy guarding him was at the start of his 924th game.



"I actually did not. I had no idea,'' Nowitzki said.



The 13-year veteran Dallas forward wasn't alone. Mavericks center Tyson Chandler also had zero knowledge of the guy wearing No. 0 and starting at forward for the Denver Nuggets at the Pepsi Center.



"I didn't know who he was before the game and, for a while, when he kept hitting jump shots, I was trying to figure out who he was,'' Chandler said.



The no-name guy is Gary Forbes, a 6-foot-7 undrafted rookie forward who played in just his third NBA game. Forbes, 25, who got out of Massachusetts in 2008, spent two years banging around the NBA D-League and in Italy and Israel before making the Nuggets on a non-guaranteed contract.



"I think they were surprised to see Gary out there,'' Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony said of the Mavericks. "I was surprised to see Gary.''

 

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