DALLAS -- Attention, Mavericks fans: In the NBA Finals ticket package you split with your business partner, here's hoping you didn't draw Games 6 and 7.
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The only way the Mavs come back from Miami is on a float.
Map the parade route. Schedule the sick day.
Prepare the fire hoses for Mark Cuban.
Miami's chances of getting back here? Good as a Shaq free throw.
What do you say after the Mavs' surprisingly easy 99-85 victory Sunday? Pat Riley knows what we'll say. He heard the same after the Heat lost two games to the young Chicago Bulls. He heard it after a big loss to New Jersey.
Heard it even when he was up 3-1 against Detroit.
"We were history," he said, chuckling at the media reaction. "I'm sure we're history right now."
Couldn't have said it better, actually.
Certainly he did a better job of it than Shaquille O'Neal, who actually disappeared long before he left American Airlines Center without a word.
Came up with a career playoff-low 5 points on 2-of-5 shooting. And that was after Miami vowed it would get him more shots than he had in Game 1.
Brick update: Shaq's now two of 16 from the free throw line in the Finals, too.
Correction: On behalf of my colleagues at the Dallas Morning News, I'd like to apologize for the half-dozen geniuses who picked the Heat to win the NBA Finals.
