As hard as it is to believe, snow fell on a steamy June night on South Beach. Today, Dallas sports fans will hit every green light on the way to work.
Yes, the Mavericks are NBA champions, which validates the idea that anything’s possible.
The little franchise that never could just did.
The Mavericks soundly whipped the Miami Heat, 105-95, on Sunday night to finish a mesmerizing NBA Finals with a 4-2 win in the best-of-7 series. For hours, with the Larry O’Brien championship trophy escorting them, the Mavericks partied at American Airlines Arena and on into the night.
Dallas Morning News
Failure. It feels like too harsh a word for this. It feels unfair. But in the real world the Heat created for itself beginning last summer, fail is precisely what Miami did here Sunday night, and therefore this season.
It was almost everything that had been advertised. Not enough.
It was almost a championship year. Not enough.
The season was dying and there was nothing Dwyane Wade and LeBron James could do to save it. The season had just died and the body of work wasn’t even cold yet, but the necessary autopsy wouldn’t wait.
Miami Herald
Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has congratulated Dallas on winning its first NBA title, denying LeBron James the one he left Cleveland to get.
About 15 minutes after the Mavericks beat the Miami Heat in Game 6, Gilbert sent a message on his Twitter page to Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
“Congrats to Mark C.& entire Mavs org.,” Gilbert wrote. “Mavs NEVER stopped & now entire franchise gets rings. Old Lesson for all: There are NO SHORTCUTS. NONE.”
NY Times
