2011 NBA Finals
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| Dates | May 31 – June 12 | ||||||||||||
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| MVP |
Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks) |
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| Television |
ABC & ESPN 3D (U.S.) TSN (Canada) ABS-CBN and Studio 23 (Philippines) |
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| Announcers |
Mike Breen, Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy (ABC) Mark Jones, Bruce Bowen (Gms 1-2, 5-6), and Tim Legler (Gms 3-4) (ESPN 3D) |
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| Radio network | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Mike Tirico, Hubie Brown, and Jack Ramsay | ||||||||||||
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| Eastern Finals | Heat defeated Bulls, 4–1 | ||||||||||||
| Western Finals | Mavericks defeated Thunder, 4–1 | ||||||||||||
| Game 1: | Steve Javie, Mike Callahan, Bill Kennedy |
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| Game 2: | Joe Crawford, Ed Malloy, Ken Mauer |
| Game 3: | Dan Crawford, Scott Foster, Derrick Stafford |
| Game 4: | Monty McCutchen, Marc Davis, Greg Willard |
| Game 5: | Joe Crawford, Mike Callahan, Bill Kennedy |
| Game 6: | Steve Javie, Scott Foster, Derrick Stafford |
The 2011 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2010–11 season of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks defeated the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat, 4–2, to win their first NBA title. Dallas became the latest NBA team from Texas to win its first title, after the Houston Rockets won back-to-back titles in 1994 and 1995, and the San Antonio Spurs won four NBA Championships in 1999, 2003, 2005 and 2007, and a fifth one subsequently in 2014; all three Texas NBA teams have now won at least one NBA Championship. It was also the first time in four years that the Los Angeles Lakers did not make the Finals, having been swept in the Western Conference Semifinals by the eventual champion, Dallas Mavericks.
The series was held from May 31 to June 12, 2011—the first to start before June 1 since the 1986 NBA Finals. Under the 2–3–2 rotation, the Miami Heat had home-court advantage; the Heat hosted Games 1, 2, and 6, and was set to host a deciding Game 7, had one been necessary. German player Dirk Nowitzki was named the Finals MVP. Nowitzki was the second European to win the award after Tony Parker (2007); he is the first German to win the award.
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