Miami put together the strongest big three probably ever assembled to rock the world and win a series of NBA titles.
Their first attempt was denied by an unexpected costumer in the script, the Dallas Mavericks. Dirk Nowitzki had a phenomenal run on route to the first NBA title for the city of Dallas.
And what a victory for basketball. That’s the end of bullying basketball. The kind in which, in the backyard of the school, the biggest muscled guys get together to make sure they humiliate their fellow students. The kind in which, some show off their muscle making pretentious announcements before the game even starts. But coach Rick Carlisle and his army knew the way to go around with business: the dancing around comes only after the winning, the hard work comes first. This was the victory of “old school” basketball, as Carlisle called it. Miami created a modern demolition machine, a bit like this Russian guy in Rocky IV who used all the newest high tech machines to train, while Rocky and his clan simply went away in a quiet place. A quiet place where Dirk has often been in the first three quarters, but every time the moment of truth came, the big German exploded to clinch victory, like he did in Game six scoring 10 of his 21 points in the last quarter. The party is over in
That's the end of bullying basketball. The Dallas Mavericks have brought back romantic basketball.