Dirk Nowitzki got the Dallas Mavericks to the brink of an NBA championship. His teammates did the rest, a perfect ending for a club that talked all season about its greatest strength being the sum of its parts.
Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks are NBA champions, and they went through LeBron James for that long-awaited first title.
Here's where all their age and experience, heartbreak and disappointment actually benefit Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks.
Ball game. Dallas 112, Miami 103.
LeBron James came to Miami last summer for the chance to be a champion.
Jason Terry put his faith in these Dallas Mavericks in ink. On the inside of his right biceps.
For days, the Dallas Mavericks insisted nothing was wrong with the shots they were taking. They just weren't falling.
Jason Kidd just drilled a 3-pointer, Mavs up 105-100.
Ball game. Dallas 112, Miami 103.
