As everyone has either seen or heard by now, the Dallas Mavericks won their first ever championship title last night when they easily defeated the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the NBA finals.
People are not only excited that the Mavericks won but they’re also excited by how they won. They came into the finals with everyone predicting that the Heat would easily defeat them. They came in as underdogs. But they never let that keep them from giving a 110% and, unlike the Heat, they never stopped playing with five minutes left in the quarter. The Heat thought they could buy a championship. The Mavs proved that you have to be willing to play for it. LeBron James might be bringing home the big bucks but the Mavericks brought home the championship.
Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks, the new NBA champions!
Through the Shattered Lens 
Well, I’m not a Mavericks fan (being a fan of SF teams I’m predisposed not to be a Dallas team fan), but I shall congratulate them for keeping Baby Bron Bron and the rest of the Miami Heat from winning the NBA Championship.
The Baseketball Gods were not on vacation. 😀
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I don’t follow Basketball, and the Cowboys are the only Dallas Team I actively support, but a 1st win has to feel wonderful there, especially being the underdogs defeating a team that by all means spent enough money to actually guarantee themselves the Championship. 🙂 Fantastic win! Congrats! 🙂
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In any other situation I would frown on an upset. I like seeing dominant sports teams win consistently. Call me a fair weather fan, whatever, if my own city isn’t involved I’m going to cheer for the best. But this year was different. The combination of stars that by all standards ought to have been the best hadn’t actually won anything together yet. This wasn’t some over-hyped joke of a sports team whose radical boasts few take seriously (New York Jets anyone?), this was a legitimate new dynasty in the making. What’s more, the final test didn’t come against the Lakers or the Spurs. It came against an underdog team out for revenge.
Usually if I can’t choose a side in a sports final I lose interest in it (like the current Stanley Cup). Here in contrast, choosing a side just wouldn’t have been appropriate. It was a very rare case in which I couldn’t have cared less which team won and could still get very, very excited about the outcome. The fact that the Heat failed will likely be remembered longer than the fact that the Mavericks won, especially if the former still go on to establish a dynasty. But that’s not what really made this final so interesting. Its real excitement rested in the fact that, on an unprecedented scale, winning meant everything.
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I don’t know much about basketball but I do know this: We won. Deal with it, America.
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