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Photograph by: RON T. ENNIS, MCT |
Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban, right, carries the NBA Championship trophy ahead of Dirk Nowitzki with the MVP trophy, Jason Terry and Tyson Chandler as the Mavericks return to Dallas Love Field on Monday a day after beating Miami in six games for the title, and hours after a wild celebration.
Five years after a parade drawn up to celebrate the Dallas Mavericks' first NBA championship backfired, new plans are in place for a ride through the city's streets.
About 250,000 people are expected to turn out Thursday to cheer on Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd, Jason Terry and the rest of the 2011 champs. Everyone will be there, from the players to the coaches, the front office to franchise founder Donald Carter, who accepted the championship trophy when the Mavs beat the Miami Heat for the title on Sunday night.
"The parade is going to be amazing," said Nowitzki, the finals MVP. "We're going to enjoy the heck out of that."
In 2006, the Mavericks won the first two games of the NBA finals and local officials were so excited that they released the route of a parade in case the team won it all.
Their foe -which happened to be the Heat -used it as motivation to win the next four games.
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