This week’s quick roundup of the player performances around the world during the last few days. This week includes discussion about Aleksandr Marić’s monster month, Dirk Nowitzki to the 2010 World Championships of basketball, Tyreke Evans and the Sacramento Kings’ amazing comeback over the Chicago Bulls and more…

• The Sacramento Kings found themselves down 33 points, 83-50, with 6 minutes left in the third quarter, but would go on outscore the Chicago Bulls 52-15 the rest of the way to pull out an amazing comeback win. The King’s comeback was led by Ime Udoka, who scored 15 straight in the fourth quarter to get Sacramento rolling. Rookie sensation Tyreke Evans, who was selected over Ricky Rubio, led the Kings with 23 points. Udoka ended with 17 and Beno Udrih added 16 points. Luol Deng led Chicago with 26 points.

• Dirk Nowitzki to the World Championships? After Pau Gasol indicated that he might skip next year’s event and Yao Ming’s intention to represent China, Nowitzki chimed in about his participation. The 7-0 German was quoted by German daily “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” after he was informed about the wild card Germany had received : “Super. This wild card gives us a great perspective for the coming years. I thank FIBA and look forward to the summer of 2010.” (via TalkBasket)

• 6-11 center Aleks Marić, former Nebraska Cornhusker, was named the Euroleague’s MVP for the month of December. The Serbian-Aussie had a dominating month for Partizan Belgrade; winning EL MVP for three of the four weeks in December which included an amazing performance against Efes Pilsen in which he tallied a 49 performance index rating.

• Andrew Bogut tallied 31 points and 18 rebounds, both season-highs, in an 84-81 win over the Indiana Pacers last night. The 7-0 center from down under hit 14 of 19 shots and blocked three shots.

• It’s only one game, but ballyhooed Sudanese forward Ater Majok was a non-factor in his first game for UConn. The 6-11 high-energy 22-year old scored just one point and had two rebounds in 16 minutes in a win over Central Florida.

• Acie Law played just 9 seconds when the Charlotte Bobcats played the New York Knicks, but had his one and only shot swatted by 6-10 Danilo Gallinari to seal the win for the Knicks, 98-94.  Gallinari scored 21 points in that game, but missed a couple free-throws that allowed the Bobcats to hang around. Gallinari has started the last two games after coming off the bench the last five.

• Former Michigan State star guard Drew Neitzel left French club Chalon. The performances of the guard did not satisfy the coaching staff, especially defensively (Basket-Spot).