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NBA2011 NBA Finals Game 2

MavericksVERSUSHeat

2011 NBA Finals Game 2 · Jun 2, 2011

Dallas and Miami played a Finals game that looked settled before a late surge changed the series mood.

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Game lineups

Starting fives

Verified starters

Home starting five
Miami Heat
StarterCBChris Bosh
StarterDWDwyane Wade
StarterJAJoel Anthony
StarterLJLeBron James
StarterMBMike Bibby
Away starting five
Dallas Mavericks
StarterDSDeShawn Stevenson
StarterDNDirk Nowitzki
StarterJKJason Kidd
StarterSMShawn Marion
StarterTCTyson Chandler

The five starters come from each team’s saved NBA box-score order. Exact positions are omitted because this archive does not reliably provide them.

Before the game

Spoiler-free context

Miami's new LeBron James–Dwyane Wade–Chris Bosh core had taken Game 1 and appeared close to a 2–0 Finals lead. Dallas, back on this stage five years after losing the 2006 Finals to Miami, needed to keep the series from getting away before it shifted to Texas.

  • Miami led the series 1–0; Dallas was trying to avoid returning home in a two-game hole.
  • Dirk Nowitzki entered with a torn tendon in his left middle finger, an injury suffered during the Game 1 loss.
  • The matchup placed Nowitzki's search for a first championship opposite the first title attempt of Miami's newly assembled Big Three.

Sources: NBA Finals moment · Mavericks retrospective

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