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When NBA officials go to the replay monitors they get flanked by the finest rent-a-cops......uh.....I mean private security guards money can buy.

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Here are some of the people in the sports world celebrating birthdays on June 19:

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Their owner may be ready to trade any one of them at any moment, they probably won't be the same team next year, but they are still NBA champions, so flaunt it while ya got it, baby!

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Dirk Nowitzki had best stick to basketball.

The Dallas Mavericks star, who won the Most Valuable Player Award while leading his team to the NBA championship, showed off some less-than-impressive skills when the city held a victory parade on Thursday.

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One of the perks of winning a major team or individual championship is getting to run the media gauntlet.  What media tour would be complete without reading the top ten list on Letterman?  Just when you didn't think Dirk could get any cooler, his delivery is flawless!

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We are nearly a year removed from the decision, and the Miami Heat have as many rings as they did last summer.  As easy as it would be to pick at all the flaws in Miami's game, Dallas was just the better TEAM.  I was one of those people who believed 3 superstars and 'C' players would defeat 1 superstar and 'B' players. 

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As a fan last night in Dallas for Game 3 of the NBA Finals, almost everyone inside American Airlines Center believed that Dirk Nowitzki would take the last shot of the game and tie the score at 88. Instead of overtime, it was heartbreak for Mavericks fans.

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Any gen-xer (1964-1982) will tell you the 80s and 90s were the golden era of the NBA.  Things got so bleak in the 70s that the Finals were aired on a tape delay.  Like the deus ex machina from ancient Greek tragedies, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird came in from college to save the drug riddled NBA.  Bird and Magic first met in the finals in 1982, and it was must see TV.

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If memory serves me correct the Heat wouldn't contend for a title in year one of the 'three am-ego' era because they lacked chemistry, a strong interior presence, and adequate role players.

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No, it won't be 90,000+ crazed fans in burnt orange and crimson rushing to the venerable Cotton Bowl to watch the Horns and Sooners clash on the field, but the western conference finals promise to be entertaining.  For the first time ever, the NBA will take center stage in one of the most football obsessed parts of the country.

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