NBA Finals: meet the Celtics and Mavericks

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Boston are gunning for a record 18th championship, while Dallas are taking inspiration from their 2011 triumph

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00:00 Every kid that plays basketball dream about this, so I was one of them.

00:04 [MUSIC]

00:31 If you wanna be one of the greats, right, to put on this uniform,

00:35 every great before you won a championship.

00:39 And that's what we try to play for every single season.

00:44 >> Ten long years, we are on the ride, baby.

00:46 >> We are on the ride, ten long years.

00:49 >> Plus 20 teams.

00:50 >> Plus 20 teams.

00:51 [MUSIC]

00:57 >> Anything's possible.

00:58 >> Anything's possible.

01:01 [MUSIC]

01:11 >> The things we kept coming back to, the things that we kept talking about the

01:17 entire year, the margins, the details, the fundamentals,

01:20 the way you go about executing at a high level.

01:22 >> I hate that I had to go through it.

01:24 I wish we would have won.

01:26 But I'm a firm believer in everything happens for a reason.

01:30 >> A different team, different coach,

01:33 two years later makes a pretty big difference.

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01:46 >> Now Mavrick puts it up, puts it in.

01:50 >> Only fitting, Dirk Mavrick sealing the deal.

01:54 >> The Mavericks have scaled the NBA playoff mountain and have planted their

01:59 flag, they are the NBA champions for 2011.

02:03 [MUSIC]

02:09 >> It's an incredible thing to be able to hopefully achieve.

02:13 I know how to win.

02:16 I've done that since elementary school to the highest level.

02:23 I used to come to a lot of those games growing up, especially that year.

02:27 It was definitely great seeing them win a championship and

02:30 obviously it's kind of full circle for me having a kid coach me and

02:34 being here in Dallas and obviously contending for a title.

02:38 >> 27 point lead, down goes Johnson.

02:42 >> No.

02:44 >> They're shredding him.

02:46 >> No, he didn't.

02:48 >> Luka dances.

02:49 >> I always had that 20, 22 run, we had great chemistry.

02:53 We stayed together and I feel the same thing with this team.

02:57 We've been together for like four or five months and we made the NBA finals.

03:02 [MUSIC]

03:12 >> We have an opportunity to win a championship.

03:15 Two out of three years we've gone to the Western Conference finals.

03:19 Some would say that's pretty cool.

03:21 Some will say that that's failure.

03:24 We had a plan.

03:24 You guys just didn't know it.

03:27 [MUSIC]

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