Parade plans
The Mavericks were up 2-0 when they left Dallas for Miami on June 12, 2006.
Somehow, plans for the parade should they go on to win the NBA championship leaked out to media members.
That was an unfortunate bit of fate for the Mavericks.
The information found its way into the Heat’s locker room, of course, and the resulting indignation might or might not have played a role in Miami coming off the mat to barge its way back into the series.
But anybody who thinks they didn’t get a severe shot of motivation from that is fooling themselves.
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That was then-Mayor Laura Miller who leaked those plans.