Articles Tagged “Dirk”
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Chuck Cooperstein Sounds Off – Remaking the Mavs
The NBA is back from the brink, and with it brings a host of intriguing stories, not the least of which (despite much national ignorance) surrounds the defending champion Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks would be intriguing simply because they are trying to repeat. That’s always the question asked the moment the first title is won, [...]
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No Time To Celebrate Last Year’s Successes
With 48 seconds left on the pregame clock before the Mavs’ season opener, the Miami Heat scurried off the court into the dark quarters of the visiting locker room. On the court, however, the Mavs and their fans celebrated something they’ve waited 31 long-suffering years for – the raising of a NBA Championship banner to [...]
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Christmas NBA & Pigskin Picks w/ “Tommy The Swami”
“Mavericks Homer” is what they call “Tommy The Swami” but read on for some objectivity. Firstly however, any Mavs follower would be shell-shocked that Dirk Nowitzki did not receive even ONE vote for 2011 AP Male Athlete of the Year. Aaron Rodgers was the deserving winner with 112 votes and Justin Verlander (50) and Novak [...]
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Dallas Mavericks – A True Team
They were supposed to be 40 percent of the first-team lineup. So how did the Mavs win a title without their ‘Robin’ and their ‘Boy Wonder’? An examination of a championship run absent Caron Butler and Roddy Beaubois … Take a peek back at the 2011 NBA Playoff and Finals highlights and your eyes will [...]
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Brad Sham’s Take on Who Belongs on the Local Mount Sportsmore
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about who belongs on the DFW Mount Rushmore of sports. But I think the debate has been too narrowly framed. Let’s fix that. Seemingly since the Dallas Mavericks qualified for the NBA Finals for the second time, the barstool debates, talk show lines and blogs have buzzed with [...]
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Oh What a Night!
It’s hard to imagine any victory in sports being sweeter than the Mavs 105-95 victory over the smug and pompous collection of NBA’ers displaying their talents for the Miami Heat. In the ultimate night of triumph and redemption for the Mavs humble and loyal German superstar, and the ultimate kick in the crotch to the [...]
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Time for Mavs to Close
It’s time. Time for our Dallas Mavericks to put the wooden stake through the heart of the Dirk mocking, fake coughing Miami Heat. Time for the pompous trio from South Beach to start thinking about what might have been if they hadn’t had a coaching and execution meltdown in the final 6 minutes of game [...]
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Make No Mistake D-Wade is in Charge
The LeBron disappearing act has nothing to do with any woman in his life. Nothing to do with nagging injuries. Nothing to do with anything more than a lack of mental toughness. So after the Heat blew a 15-point lead in game 2 of the Finals, D-Wade decided he had to officially take over the [...]
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And Now for the Next Biggest Mavs Game Ever…..
It’s Big. Huge actually. Thursday’s night’s Game 5 showdown with the Miami Heat is the biggest game, without doubt, we’ve seen for our Mavs since 2006, and most would say it’s the biggest game in the history of the franchise. Tim Cowlishaw of The Morning News went one step further and touted it as the [...]
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Now What Mavs?
It should be like a mantra….”don’t let Dwyane beat you.” But the Mavericks aren’t repeating those words because the guy that killed them in the ’06 Finals is doing it again. If Dallas hopes to win this roller coaster series, it had better find a way to put someone other than Jason Kidd on Wade. [...]
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