{"id":7563,"date":"2011-06-13T16:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7563"},"modified":"2011-06-13T16:23:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:23:07","slug":"big-d-mavericks-top-heat-105-95-for-nba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7563","title":{"rendered":"Big D: Mavericks Top Heat 105-95 For  NBA Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8212; For <strong>Dirk Nowitzki<\/strong>, the resume is complete. He&#8217;s an NBA champion.<\/p>\n<p>For <strong>LeBron James<\/strong>, the agonizing wait continues for at least one more year.<\/p>\n<p>A season that began with Miami celebrating the signings of <strong>James<\/strong>, <strong>Dwyane Wade<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Bosh<\/strong> &#8211; along with the promise of championships &#8211; ended on the very same floor, with the Dallas Mavericks hoisting the title trophy for the first time in their franchise history after beating the Heat 105-95 on Sunday night. The Mavericks won four of the series&#8217; last five games, a turnabout that could not have been sweeter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really still can&#8217;t believe it,&#8221; said <strong>Nowitzki<\/strong>, who had 21 points and took home finals MVP honors.<\/p>\n<p>He and <strong>Jason Terry<\/strong>, who led the Mavs with 27 points, were the two remaining players from the Dallas team that lost to Miami in the 2006 finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI &#8212; For Dirk Nowitzki, the resume is complete. He&#8217;s an NBA champion. For LeBron James, the agonizing wait continues for at least one more year. A season that began with Miami celebrating the signings of James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh &#8211; along with the promise of championships &#8211; ended on the very same [&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-7563","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\/7563","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=7563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}