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The NBA's championship-winning game for the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday was seen by nearly 24 million people, leading ABC to its most-watched week during the slow summer season in nearly 10 years. The Nielsen Co. said the Mavericks' series victory over the Miami Heat was seen by an average of 17.3 million people over the six games. That's a little less than the viewership for last year's Lakers-Celtics series, which had the advantage of going to a climactic seventh game.

“All the people that were rooting for me to fail… at the end of the day, tomorrow they have to wake up and have the same life that (they had) before they woke up today,” James said. “They got the same personal problems they had today. And I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things I want to do.”

The 105-95 victory was sweet for many of the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night, but especially for Jason Terry, who had the championship trophy tattooed on his bicep before the season.

A price of $500 million for Atlanta's Hawks and Thrashers is not out of the question... That is a lot of money for an NBA team and NHL team that are both losing money. But it is not out of the question considering that True North Sports and Entertainment has already offered $170 million ($60 million of which would go to the league as a relocation fee to move the team to Winnipeg) for just the Thrashers and Comcast-Spectacor is close to selling another money-losing NBA team, the Philadelphia 76ers, for between $300 million and $330 million.

Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks finally have the lead in these ultra-close NBA finals, and now it really is "now or never" for LeBron James and the Miami Heat....

Dirk Nowitzki shook off three poor quarters to score 10 of his 21 points in the final period as the Mavericks outscored the Miami Heat 21-9 over the final 10:12 for an 86-83 victory in a memorable Game 4 Tuesday night.

Dwyane Wade kept soaring and scoring, doing everything he could to get the Miami Heat a crucial win towards an NBA title....

The Knicks announced that the team president will leave when his contract expires at the end of this month.

Dirk Nowitzki made a layup with three seconds to play as Dallas rallied from a 15-point deficit in the final quarter.

He was a prolific producer of rebounds and record albums. And nicknames, too, as if at 7-foot-1 and 350 pounds he was too big for the simple "Shaq" that made him an instantly recognizable, one-name star in all of his endeavors....