Dallas Mavericks is the Winner

Dallas Mavericks is the Winner - "We were similar to the team that won in Detroit," he says of the nondescript 2004 champion Pistons who upset a Los Angeles Lakers team that had Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant. "A team (with players) that had been bounced around, traded, people forgot about them. The Mavericks were his third team this season.

 

Nowitzki, a 10-time All-Star in his 13th season, is drawn to Cuban's swagger. He was a free agent last summer, but he never seriously considered leaving Dallas, never mind fielding offers from other teams the way James and Chris Bosh did before joining Wade in Miami.

During the aftermath of the Dallas Mavericks being crowned 2011 NBA Champions, Twitter was abuzz with just about everyone congratulating Dirk Nowitzki and the Mavs on a well-deserved victory while reveling in the fact that the season's ultimate villain, the Miami Heat, were vanquished at last. The only way a team is going to win a championship is if it has the desire, talent and, perhaps most importantly, has experienced crushing heartbreak in the past.

Even teams like the 2005-06 Heat can fall under this category as it had a collection of aged stars who had flamed out in the postseason with previous teams and were looking for one last shot at glory.

Experiencing the agony of defeat is an important lesson for any aspiring championship team and it showed in the Finals.

There's absolutely nothing that was said or written about the Mavericks that the team's players hadn't heard before.

LeBron James took his talents to South Beach last summer. The Mavericks took the Larry O'Brien Trophy home to Dallas on Sunday night. » In classic "Dewey Defeats Truman" form, Monday's Miami Herald had a full-page Macy's ad for official Heat championship merchandise. Oops.

Mavericks guard Jason Kidd won his first NBA title in his 17th season in the league. The cash-strapped franchise owes Manny Ramirez $8.33 million in deferred compensation by June 30. Team owner Frank McCourt barely met payroll on June 1. ESPN analyst Chris Mortensen tweeted Monday that Pryor's highest grade among NFL general managers for the NFL Supplemental Draft, if there is one, is "maybe a 4th rounder, if that." St. Mary's graduate Louie Lechich hit .286 in 56 at-bats for Cal this season as a freshman.

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