Lesson drawn from Dallas Mavericks NBA first title

It is always good to learn from sports even though one may not be a sport lover.

I've stopped following NBA since the retirement of Michael Jordan.
However, occasionally I do peep into the news finding out what is happening around.

This year NBA is another typical success story to learn.

Dallas Maverick has not been having any NBA Championship title in the franchise's 31-year history. The closest they got into was year 2006 NBA Finals, which happened that Miami Heat ended Maverick dreams with the title.

This year, the Maverick faced off with the Heat again.

The Heat "seems" to be superior than Maverick. The Heat has the power house trio, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh which led the team to 72 wins in the playoff seems to have far more advantages than the Maverick.

Dallas Maverick who had only 2 players remaining from the 2006 teams, started off the season with average result.  However, it has shown that it is beyond skills and being a star player when something is at stake.

The Maverick led by Dirk Nowitzki, together with Jason Terry has shown that when something matters to us most, it no longer how good you are but how much you want it.

The Maverick didn't start of the season with favorable results. However, when the going gets tough, the tough gets going. When the odds are against us, we just got to show the universe how much we want it.

Dirk Nowitzki who had a torn tendon in his finger and 39 deg C fever had led the team to their first NBA Championship title.

"In a lot of games we kept fighting back," Nowitzki said. "All the wins we got in the fourth quarter, at some point we were down and we kept plugging", Nowitzki

Nowitzki and the team just shown that they want the title badly than others. And most of the time, it is driven by a strong emotion (as I always mention in Ultimate Slimming Intensive workshop)

"And if you lose, you're going to get hammered. I got hammered the last 13 years. So hopefully this year I hope I can make the hammering go away for one year.", said Nowitzki when they are just one game away to clinch the title. He sure had a strong reason to do it.  No wonder he is the MVP of the finals.

Nowitzki does not have many super star players in the team but he had the best team.  A team that support each other no matter what it takes.

Nowitzki said, "You want to be a part of the best and so hopefully we can fulfill that and everything else is kind of a side note to me."

"(Jason Terry) got going early. That one timeout he said to me 'Keep pushing. Remember 2006'. I kept plugging and kept fighting.

In what ever games we play in life, it is important to surround ourselves with good team. The team that asks the best out from us and the people that keep reminding what we really want.

Many a times, it is not how good we are, it is how much we want it.

I watch Glory Road time after time, another basketball movie based on real story where the Texas Miners not only win the title but changing the history of basketball.

There are many lessons we can draw from the movie as well. An inspiration movie to remind us not to let reality affect us, but craft out our reality.

The winning is sweet because we put our heart and soul into it.
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