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Dallas MavericksVERSUSMiami Heat

2005-06 · NBA Finals Game 3 · Jun 13, 2006

#2 Dallas Mavericks vs #2 Miami Heat

Miami and Dallas played a Finals game with the series threatening to tilt heavily toward the Mavericks.

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Miami Heat
StarterAWAntoine Walker
StarterDWDwyane Wade
StarterJWJason Williams
StarterSOShaquille O'Neal

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Dallas had beaten Miami in the first two Finals games and arrived in Florida looking capable of closing the franchise's first championship quickly. Dwyane Wade, in only his third season, carried the burden of preventing the veteran Mavericks from taking complete control.

  • Dallas led 2–0; no team had ever recovered from that deficit in the Finals under the 2–3–2 format.
  • Miami was hosting the next three games, making Game 3 the immediate test of whether its first Finals appearance could become a competitive series.

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Starter
UHUdonis Haslem
Away starting five
Dallas Mavericks
StarterAGAdrian Griffin
StarterDDDeSagana Diop
StarterDNDirk Nowitzki
StarterJTJason Terry
StarterJHJosh Howard

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.