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A new league dress code was put into effect at the beginning of the year by commissioner David Stern.; The Miami Heat win their first NBA championship in franchise history. . They become the third franchise (joining the 1969 Boston Celtics and 1977 Portland Trail Blazers, later joined by the 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers and 2021 Milwaukee Bucks) to win the NBA Finals after losing the first two ga
The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association ... It also marked the first time a Canadian-based NBA team had won a division ...
The 2011 NBA Finals, which was a rematch of 2006, saw the Mavericks win in six games after trailing 2–1 in the Finals. It was the Mavericks' first NBA championship, as well as both teams' second appearances in the Finals. Dirk Nowitzki was named Finals MVP.
The 2006 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2005–06 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat defeating the Western Conference champion Dallas Mavericks 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals .
Also memorable from this season was during a January 22, 2006 game vs. the Toronto Raptors where Bryant dropped a record 81 points, only the 2nd highest total in NBA history behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962. After the playoffs, Bryant underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee in July.
NBA season and playoffs: 2006 NBA Finals: Miami Heat 4, Dallas Mavericks 2. MVP: Dwyane Wade. 2006 NBA draft; 2006 NBA All-Star Game; EuroLeague (Europe-wide): CSKA Moscow defeated Maccabi Tel Aviv 73–69 in the final; Croatian League: Cibona defeated Zadar 2–1 in the best-of-three finals; French League: Le Mans defeated Nancy 93–88 in the ...
The 2006–07 Miami Heat season was the 19th season for the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Heat, for the first time in franchise history, entered the season as the defending NBA champions, having defeated the Dallas Mavericks in the 2006 NBA Finals in six games.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional men's basketball league, consisting of thirty teams in North America (twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada). The NBA was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). [1]