With just 14.9 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of Game 4, Dirk Nowitzki, 102 degree fever and all, drove to the basket for two of his team-high 21 points. The crucial bucket sealed the eventual 86-83 victory for the […]
Dirk Nowitzki scored 12 straight points at the end of the game, and Dallas outscored Miami in the second half – but the Miami Heat, ever the fierce competitors, pulled out the victory on the road. With the 88-86 win […]
It was a story unfamiliar to the Miami Heat in these 2011 playoffs, but one the Dallas Mavericks know well. Dallas came back from a seemingly debilitating deficit with seven minutes remaining to claim Game Two behind good defense and […]
The Miami Heat have jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 2011 NBA Finals with a 92-84 win over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night. While the nature of the game was completely different than the eastern conference finals, […]
LeBron James is taking his talents somewhere again, but this time it’s to the NBA Finals. It may look like a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals, where the Dallas Mavericks lost a heart-breaker to the Miami Heat after winning […]
An impressive fourth quarter comeback by the Miami Heat in the waning minutes of Game Five led them one step closer to all they were, perhaps prematurely, celebrating in the fall: an NBA title in their first year together. With […]
It took six hours, 11 minutes, and 19 innings for the Philadelphia Phillies to knock off the Cincinnati Reds 5-4 on Wednesday night (Thursday morning?) in a game that ended at 1:19am. The win went to Wilson Valdez, heroically moving […]
The Dallas Mavericks are once again headed to the NBA Finals, defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder 100-96 in Dallas Wednesday night. It was a story not too dissimilar to Monday night’s. The Mavericks once again found themselves trailing most of […]
I can’t help but think, when the Heat finally get this thing figured out, they will win championships almost unstoppably. Until then, they will have to settle for winning close games like this against teams like these Chicago Bulls. The […]
One can only imagine that Scott Brooks and his young Thunder squad didn’t sleep well last night. Outscored 11 – 4 in overtime after blowing a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter Monday night, it couldn’t have been a peaceful […]