{"id":7049,"date":"2011-05-26T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2011-05-26T15:17:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T19:17:42","slug":"mavs-top-thunder-100-96-to-book-trip-to-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7049","title":{"rendered":"Mavs Top Thunder 100-96 To Book Trip To NBA Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 <strong>Dirk Nowitzki<\/strong> wrapped his hands around the silver ball trophy that goes to the Western Conference champions and smiled. After five years, he and the Dallas Mavericks are kings of their conference again, earning another trip to the NBA finals.<\/p>\n<p>Yet <strong>Nowitzki<\/strong> didn\u2019t flash the wide, toothy grin of someone relieved to have accomplished his goal. Because, he hasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the Mavs win the next round, too, and become NBA champions for the first time, their whole glorious postseason &#8211; and that silver trophy &#8211; won\u2019t mean as much. It\u2019s a lament heard by many superstars, but<strong> Nowitzki\u2019s<\/strong> indifference amid much of the frenzied celebration around him showed just how serious he is about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was already thinking about the finals,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is nice for a day, but we set our goals in October to win it all. We haven\u2019t done it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 Dirk Nowitzki wrapped his hands around the silver ball trophy that goes to the Western Conference champions and smiled. After five years, he and the Dallas Mavericks are kings of their conference again, earning another trip to the NBA finals. Yet Nowitzki didn\u2019t flash the wide, toothy grin of someone relieved to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}