Dwyane Wade stopped in his tracks, grabbed a Wheaties box with him and Shaquille O'Neal on it and said, "Oh, I like this."That would explain why I heard car horns honking at 1:30 this morning.
Udonis Haslem sat, soaked in champagne, crying with a hat covering his eyes.
Alonzo Mourning walked into the locker room preparing for a champagne shower, saying "Show me the bubbles, baby."
They are all snapshots of a plan executed to perfection.
Heat coach and president Pat Riley altered a team built around Wade and O'Neal for this very moment, for those embraces, for that celebration that he has waited 11 years to experience as the leader of the Miami Heat.
Behind 36 points from Wade, the Finals MVP, and double-doubles from Udonis Haslem and Antoine Walker, the Heat beat the Dallas Mavericks 95-92 to win its first NBA title in its first trip to the championship series.
Congratulations, men.
