The Dallas Mavericks basketball team have only been playing in the NBA since 1980, but in that time they’ve taken three division titles, two conference titles, and a championship. The young team was built in the 1980s on players such as Mark Aguirre, Derek Harper, and Detlef Schrempf, but most Mavs fans would just as soon forget about the ’90s. Then, in 2000, a newly minted dot-com billionaire named Mark Cuban bought the team, injecting new off-court energy into the organization. On the court, players like Jason Kidd, Dirk Nowitzki, and Jason Terry were added, whose hard work paid off in 2011 when the Mavericks beat LeBron James and the Miami Heat in the NBA finals.
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