Dave Pruitt, Sports Emerge
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Prior to the Dallas Mavericks winning their 1st NBA Title, hoisting up the Larry O’Brien Trophy in victory, Coach Rick Carlisle addressed the media at the press conference.
He stated, “Miami’s time is going to come; their talent is undeniable.” Carlisle continued, “at some point it’s going to carry the day, there’s no doubt about that; there time is not now.” With great expression. “Our time is now. We need it to be now.”
The Mavs Sunday night definitely proved they were the better team over an over confident Miami squad. What people failed to realize is the Mavs & Heat played 8 times this season & after Sunday night the Mavs won 6 of those games with 4 coming in the right place at the right time, in the NBA Finals.
You would think somewhere along the line while LeBron James & Dwyane Wade were growing up they came across a Disney movie or 2. In those movies there is always the story of Good versus Evil & Good always prevails over Evil. However, Lebron & Wade chose to take on the role of the villains of the NBA with “The Decision” & the PUBLIC DISPLAY of COCKINESS during the introduction of the Big 3 in Miami American Airlines Arena.
LeBron has steadily dragged down Dwyane Wade to his level with his audaciousness.
Throughout this entire process I’ve tried to defend LeBron but now he has reached his all time low when he was asked to respond to everyone who wanted to see him lose.
He stated with a smirk on his face. “At the end of the day, all the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today.”
He continued. “They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point,” he added.
Wow, LeBron is really taking on this villainous role quite seriously, you really don’t want anybody to like you, he must be trying to take over for Bin Laden without all of the killing.
The role of the GOOD guys were given to the Mavs who were not only playing for Mark Cuban & the city of Dallas but for Cleveland Cavs fans & anybody who just HATED the grouping of Wade, LeBron & Chris Bosh.
Enough about the losers. Dirk Nowitzki has achieved one of his major goals in life after a long wait. 12 years in the NBA, once reffered to as being soft after losing in the 2006 NBA Finals to then a Dwyane Wade & Shaquille O’Neal ran Miami Heat. Along with Jason Terry, Dirk gets his revenge, winning in nearly the same fashion that they lost in ’06.
In 2006 the Mavs won the 1st two games in the Finals only to lose the next 4 games. This year the Heat went up 2-1 in the series only to lose the next 3 ultimately losing to our new NBA Champs.
Dirk now removes himself from the company of John Stocton & Karl Malone as a superstar without a championship ring. With doing so he joined Kobe Bryant & Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson & Larry Bird, as a superstar with a league MVP award & a NBA Finals MVP award & a championship ring.
Mark Cuban chose to stay out the spotlight this year & just let his Coach Rick Carlisle & his star Dirk Nowitzki lead the Mavs in a humbled fashion to a championship.
Jason Kidd is now validated as a champion after a wonderful growth in his career from being just a pure guard to a pure point guard who could hit clutch 3-pointers, knocking down 2 in Sunday’s Game 6. After 16 years in the league & once losing a title with the New Jersey Nets in 2003 versus the San Antonio Spurs losing in 6 games.
Jason Kidd got the monkey off his back, as did Jason Terry who accompanied Dirk Nowitzki in the 2006 NBA Finals lost. In Terry’s revenge he averaged 19.7 points in the last 3 games the Mavs won.
Terry pointed out his tattoo on his right arm of the Larry O’Brien Trophy after the game in a on-court interview & said,”For someone to do something that crazy,” smiled & continued. “You have to back it up.”
And Terry did just that scoring 27 in the final game of the series on the Heat’s home floor, in front of the Heat crowd helping his leader, Dirk. Who struggled through the 1st half missing shots he normally makes, it got to a point where Dirk had only hit 1 out of 12 shots but he later finished shooting 33% , 9 of 27 scoring 21 points.
It was an intense match-up over the course of the 6 games & it climaxed in this final game with a skirmish that broke out between DeShawn Stevenson (who initiated) & Udonis Haslem as he turned to walk back to his bench during a time out & was met face to face with Stevenson who then shoved Haslem. That caused a reaction by Mario Chalmers who had just hit the shot that caused a Dallas time out, to run over & join the altercation by pushing & shoving Stevenson. The players was given technical fouls & I believe that could have ruined the Heat’s chance at a momentum switch as the game was still close.
Either way you look at it the Dallas Mavericks were the classier team with much more to lose. Dirk & his team were at the age where this may very well had been their last chance to win a Title, & they did.
A long summer of continous scrutiny for the Miami Heat.
And for the Mavs congratulations for becoming the 2011 NBA Champions!!!
Party on Mark Cuban, with your cigar & new found trophy!
It is what it is…
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