How did I miss during my morning Mavs round-up: On June 14, CBS SportsLine reported that after the Game 3 loss in Miami, two women snuck into the Mavs’ locker room and wound up showering with the players, chief among them Marquis Daniels, who invited the ladies to stick arond,…
“Gary Payton, you’re so great. How come you’re so great?” And other questions posed by NBA writers. Forget Game 4, the blowout you still can’t erase from the memory banks, and we’re just a few ticks of the clock away from the title that shoulda-woulda-coulda been the Dallas Mavericks’. Now…
Don’t start switching the parade route into funeral procession. Not yet, anyway. Why? Never fear, D.J. Mbenga is here! He’ll be back from his five-game suspension in Game 5 of the NBA Finals Sunday night in Miami. Actually, the muscled Mavs center probably won’t play against the Miami Heat, but…
Why is this man smiling? Oh, right. Because he is kicking the Mavericks’ collective ass. Did think briefly this morning about recapping the results of my swim team’s meet last night; turns out we lost too, but at least the kids tried, which is more than I can say for…
Dwyane Wade needs a Purple Heart more than he needs an NBA title. Guy has more boo-boos than a 3-year-old. Not because he torched the Dallas Mavericks for 42 points in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. (Well, that may be part of the reason.) Not because everyone else is…
Mark Cuban to David Letterman: Steve Nash sucked, and Donald Trump’s a dick. That about sums it up. Before we start this morning’s Mavs-Heat what-up recap, we can go no further before mentioning Mark Cuban’s appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman last night. Gotta say, the man held…
At Nellie’s Sports Bar just south of downtown Dallas, there are tons of photos adorning the walls. Former Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson with Dirk Nowitzki, with Steve Nash, with Troy Aikman, with Sammy Hagar and even with Kinky Friedman. And, coming soon, Nellie posing with the NBA championship trophy…
That wasn’t Thundershower Alberto chugging through south Florida last night; that was the Karma Train. And, after the city of Dallas inexplicably unveiled its plans for a victory parade a week prematurely, it ran right over the Dallas Mavericks. Well, that and a combination of pathetic Mavs’ play and brilliant…
Looks like Dwyane Wade did not forget his balls last night. What, you didn’t think your Dallas Mavericks were going to sweep the Miami Heat; who are you, anyway, Tim Cowlishaw? And weren’t you getting just a little bored with this series? Wasn’t that the kind of game you wanted…
Look, we all know our Dallas Mavericks are gonna win the NBA Finals. But that doesn’t mean the series is over just yet. The Mavs are up 2-0 heading into tonight’s Game 3, where the Miami Heat will almost certainly ride desperation to a big early lead. They call it…
Who needs coffee when there’s this to greet you first thing in the morning: “Mavs-Heat isn’t must-see TV,” blares the headline from the San Francisco Chronicle, where columnist Gwen Knapp says Sunday offered much better sports viewing than Game 2 of the NBA Finals. You know what was better than…
Don’t read this if you’re going to watch the rebroadcast of the U.S.-Czech Republic World Cup match tonight. On second thought, do read it, because I’ve got a piece of advice: Don’t bother. We were terrible. In 2002, the U.S. made up for inferior individual skills with relentless pressure and…
From left: Chris Mavor, Andrew Hamilton and Sam Murchison made it to the AAC last night the old-fashioned way. They earned a thousand bucks in a week. This afternoon The Dallas Morning News posted a short piece to its Web site about three 11-year-old boys who raised more than $1,000…
Memo to Shaq: Tossing kids is not how you’re supposed to practice free throws. Then again, whatever doesn’t work… It’s almost to the point of sympathy–pity, really. With the way your Dallas Mavericks have dismantled the Miami Heat in taking a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals, it’s like watching…
Is that a pistol in your pocket, Helio, or are you just going to a 6-year-old’s birthday party? “Yaweee Bebe! Yawee Bebe!” Such is the victory cry of the Indy Racing League, or at least it is out of the mouth of Brazilian Helio Castroneves (hobbies: tennis, being one of…
Wishful thinking of wish fulfillment? The Sporting News is reporting this morning that Jason Terry’s going to stay in Dallas next season. Looks like the NBA Finals ain’t going past Thursday night’s Game 4 in Miami; least, that’s what it says in damned near every paper Unfair Park’s been perusing…
Word is this guy’s supposed to show at the Mavs-Heat game Sunday. So in Game 1 of Dallas-Miami we got some Jerry Bruckheimer, some Jack Ingram, some Terrell Owens–some so-so celebrities. But for Game 2, I hear we’re going to–you knew it was coming–turn up the Heat. In addition to…
See, I toldja the Heat sucked. That and other revelations from the Mavs’ Game 1 victory over Miami last night at American Airlines Center: Nothing says cool like glowing blue pom-poms. Made the American Airlines Center look more like a U2 concert instead of The NBA Finals. After forcing our…
I told the Miami-born missus last night (or about an hour ago, give or take) the story of the first game in the NBA Finals would be: Dirk scores nada, Mavs still win, Miami’s screwed. Turns out at this early hour (it’s now 1:19 a.m., just maybe not where you…
There is no disputing that the NBA Finals are huge, colossal, epic—in the United States. It’s equally true that for the rest of the world, the end of this year’s NBA playoffs is just a footnote to the finals that really matter: the World Cup. But there’s no need to…
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has picked up a nice piece about Mark Cuban and Shaq–the “oddball couple,” ugh–written for the Associated Press by my old pal Jaime Aron. But I warn you: It contains the worst picture ever taken of the Cubes. And I think scout Reggie Johnson agrees, from…
Dwyane Wade looks really neat in NBA Live 06. Too bad even the videogame version’s gonna get spanked. Screw Vegas. Put your money on the $7-plus billion per annum videogame industry. EA Sports, publishers of NBA LIVE 06, ran a videogame simulation of the NBA Finals and concluded that Dallas…
