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This Year Is Different

How The Mavs Won It All: The Official Story

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It isn’t like the Dallas Mavericks winning the NBA title in June was a big secret, but until now no one within the NBA was talking about basketball and everyone outside the sport was only talking about the lack thereof. 
 
But now it is back to business as usual and everyone is clamoring about the NBA. Talk of the upcoming season is as prominent as Christmas at Starbucks. The NBA chatter is focused on the upcoming season and whether the Mavericks have the legs to repeat as champions or if the Miami Heat will come back with more fire than ever to take back what they already knew was theirs in August of 2010.
 
No one is breaking the radio silence more clearly than Dallas Sports talk host Bob Sturm. Sturm isn’t focused on the upcoming season. He wants everyone to know exactly how the Mavericks pulled off their magical championship run last year. Through extensive interviews and covering the Mavericks as a passionate journalist, Sturm illuminates what exactly brought the Mavericks together as a team—a team that won 57 regular season games and compiled playoff series victories over Portland, Los Angeles, and Oklahoma City before taking the home the Larry O’Brien Trophy from the Finals by convincingly defeating the Miami Heat.

THIS YEAR IS DIFFERENT covers all the important details of the Dallas Mavericks' 2011 championship season, including: 

- The transformation of the Dallas Mavericks franchise from perennial loser to NBA powerhouse.
- Dirk Nowitzki's career-long battle to cement his dynasty with an NBA championship, including a bitter loss in the 2006 Finals to Dwyane Wade's Miami Heat.
- Tracing the ups and downs of the 2011 campaign, as the Mavs soared to the top of the standings, only to suffer critical injuries mid-season and a string of losses which threatened their playoff hopes.
- A game-by-game recap of the Mavericks' 2011 playoff run, as they battled through the quarter-, semi-, and Western Conference Finals for a chance to compete for the NBA championship. 
- The epic story of the 2011 NBA Finals, as Nowitzki and the Mavs took on Miami's "Big Three," in a rematch of Dallas' heartbreaking loss in the 2006 Finals, and how the Mavericks overcame all odds to win their first NBA Championship.

Customer Reviews

Ask Sports Sturm

I assume Bob wrote this for Dan so he knows what happened last season.

This Year is Different-I was sturminated

I am a P1 of This Year is Different. I truly have had my sports world turned upside down by reading this detailed depiction of Dallas Mavericks basketball. If you want to be cancer free, happy, and an all around better person, then I suggest that you read this book.

If you simply want to mill around smartly or just ask the time of your friendly mercantile, then I suggest this book.

Thanks Bob Sturm for making Dallas a better place.

Merry Christmas To Me!

It was an amazing year for the loyal Mavericks fan capped off by a fantastic look at how it happened. Bob is a sports genius with a wealth of knowledge so do yourself a favor and buy this book!
P1s Unite!

This Year Is Different
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  • $2.99
  • Available on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac.
  • Category: Basketball
  • Published: Dec 12, 2011
  • Publisher: Diversion Books
  • Seller: Diversion Publishing Corp.
  • Print Length: 213 Pages
  • Language: English
  • Requirements: To view this book, you must have an iOS device with iBooks 1.3.1 or later and iOS 4.3.3 or later, or a Mac with iBooks 1.0 or later and OS X 10.9 or later.

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