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“Not about to tarnish the work I put in” – Dwyane Wade rips into Mark Cuban’s claim about finals being rigged

September 3, 2025

It’s been almost 20 years since the Miami Heat won its first championship. It came during the third season of Dwyane Wade, who averaged 34.7 points per game to beat the Dallas Mavericks.

However, after all these years, former Mavericks principal owner Mark Cuban still hasn’t gotten over it. He doubled down on his narrative of the 2006 NBA Finals being “stolen” from them.

“We hurt in 2006 after it was stolen from us, right?” Cuban said on Aug. 26, via DLLS Mavs. “And I’ll take that to my grave that it was stolen from us.”