Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, spoke to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald earlier this week and discussed the relationship that the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavs have had over the past several years, despite being unlikely rivals for some of those years. The conversation was an interesting one from multiple perspectives.
The relationship between the Mavs and Heat stems back at its earliest to the 2006 NBA Finals where the two teams met. Since then, Dallas and Miami have had close ties for several years, including another Finals matchup and multiple trades. Cuban says there are “no hard feelings” between the two teams after a strange deal fell through at the start of free agency.