The Dallas Mavericks won both games in the regular season. Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle won a championship as a reserve for Boston's 1986 championship team making him only the eleventh person in NBA history to win a Finals as both a player and a coach.Ģnd seed in the East, 3rd-best league recordĭefeated the 6th-seeded Portland Trail Blazers, 4–2ĭefeated the 7th-seeded Philadelphia 76ers, 4–1ĭefeated the 2nd-seeded Los Angeles Lakers, 4–0ĭefeated the 3rd-seeded Boston Celtics, 4–1ĭefeated the 4th-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder, 4–1ĭefeated the 1st-seeded Chicago Bulls, 4–1 Eddie House, Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, LeBron James (James would reach the finals every year from 2011 to 2018, with both the Heat and the Cavaliers), and Jason Kidd have appeared in the Finals with different teams, with House (as a member of Boston's 2008 championship team), Wade and Haslem winning a championship ring. Aside from Dampier, Caron Butler, Juwan Howard, and Shawn Marion are the only other players who have played for both the Mavericks and Heat. Heat center Erick Dampier played for the Mavericks in 2006.
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The 2011 series marked the first time a Finals match (Game 1) was played in the month of May since 1986.Īmong the players from both teams, only Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry of Dallas, and Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem of Miami, appeared in the 2006 series with the same team. It also marks the first time since 1995 that the Eastern Conference team lost in the Finals despite having home-court advantage. This was only the second time that the Eastern Conference had home-court advantage during the Finals since the end of the Michael Jordan era in 1998. The Heat had home-court advantage by virtue of a better regular-season record than the Mavericks.
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The Mavericks' appearance also meant that three of North America's four major professional sports championships were played in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in a span of eight months, with the 2010 World Series and Super Bowl XLV both occurring in nearby Arlington. It was also the first time since 2006 that neither the Los Angeles Lakers nor the San Antonio Spurs represented the Western Conference in the Finals and only the second time since 1998, and also the thirteenth consecutive NBA Finals to feature a Western Conference champion from either the states of California or Texas. This Finals marked a rematch of those 2006 Finals, won by Miami in six games, after the Mavericks were up 2–0. See also: 2010–11 Dallas Mavericks season and 2010–11 Miami Heat seasonīoth the Mavericks and Heat made their second appearance in the NBA Finals, the first for both teams being the 2006 NBA Finals. Due in part to Nowitzki's turbulent playoff runs previously, the series has been acclaimed as one of the greatest finals of all time. Mavericks forward and German player Dirk Nowitzki was named Finals MVP, becoming the second European to win the award after Tony Parker ( 2007) and the first German player to do so. It was held from May 31 to June 12, 2011.Įntering the series as heavy favorites, the Miami Heat won the opening game and eventually led the series 2–1 before the underdog Dallas Mavericks won the next three games to achieve their first championship in franchise history. A rematch of the 2006 Finals, the series was contested between the Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks and the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat.
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