The 2006 NBA Playoffs was the postseason of the National Basketball Association's 2005–06 season. The 2006 NBA Champions were the Miami Heat who won the first championship in the history of the franchise. The team defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4-2 in the 2006 NBA Finals. The Heat's Dwyane Wade was named Finals MVP. This NBA Finals featured two teams that never made the finals in the past. The last time this happened was in 1971 when the Milwaukee...
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The 2006 NBA Playoffs was the postseason of the National Basketball Association's 2005–06 season. The 2006 NBA Champions were the Miami Heat who won the first championship in the history of the franchise. The team defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4-2 in the 2006 NBA Finals. The Heat's Dwyane Wade was named Finals MVP. This NBA Finals featured two teams that never made the finals in the past. The last time this happened was in 1971 when the Milwaukee Bucks met the Baltimore Bullets. This has happened 5 times in the history of the NBA, the very first of them between the Philadelphia Warriors and the Chicago Stags. This also happened between the Minneapolis Lakers & the Washington Capitals in 1949 and between the New York Knickerbockers & the Rochester Royals in 1951.
The Mavericks almost gave up a 3-1 series lead to the defending champion San Antonio Spurs in the conference semifinals but managed to pull out a Game 7 overtime win in San Antonio to close out the series. This was just the...
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