Dallas Mavericks Champion Dirk Nowitzki got engaged recently, and spilled the beans during a recent interview with a Dallas radio show:

This morning we had audio with Dirk himself confirming that his is engaged to his long time girlfriend Jessica Olsson. It happened on Valentine’s Day 2012 and was reported in Germany but totally missed by the local media. Dirk said that the german media reported it 6 weeks ago but he believes that it was missed here because it was incorrectly reported so many times in the past.

Congratulations Dirk! Add him to the list of people who have now more rings than Lebron.

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The good folks at ESPN decided to pass time in the lockout by listing the 10 best NBA players in the league. We decided to show them to you on the court and giving you their best GQ looks. Which one tops your list of stars you want to chop down?!

So enjoy the list, and remember, we didn’t make it! Because some of these choices are questionable at best. Especially number one!

Celebrities like to party. A lot. Just as much as we do. The good thing is our drunkenness isn’t broadcast across the world for millions so see.

Oh well, poor them. Let’s enjoy!

2011 NBA champions Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd of the Dallas Mavericks were both stuntin on the ESPY red carpet with some nice arm candy.

Looks like despite the rumors, Jason Kidd and baby mama Porschla Coleman (BDR’s ex) are still together….

Amar’e…where is Ciara???

According to reports in Germany, Dirk Nowitzki has defeated “Ghetto Basketball”…

Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks will be included in an illustrious list of winners and NBA most valuable player “of the Final Series (Most Valuable Player) of the past 25 years. He is the first white MVP since Larry Bird.

That street ball, threaten Rap and ghetto chic and the commercial success of the sport, has recognized the league itself years ago. At that time the players were still dressed with gold chains and hung in the gangsta look: baseball caps, schlabberige pants, long T-shirts and sneakers were open standard.

The wide – white in the majority – aware American public takes this shoddy outfit but with street gangs and the mainly black rappers scene here. The organization wants the NBA, the basketball bothered as a family sports marketing for all. Therefore, a dress code was enforced. The players must now appear in a suit and tie the game.

The skin color is U.S. observers have noted that one of the causes that explain the success of the final series with the viewers. The fact that this is a white star while the throne conquer is certainly good for the commercial success, writes columnist Bill Foxsports Reiter. Even if it is a sad fact that the skin color in general still play a role.

Nowitzki is the man who would hesitate to the average American is not in his living room. He is reticent, has manners and is cultivated.

Think it’s a language barrier issue or racist comments???

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You probably already saw the pictures and footage of the Mavs makin’ it rain in Miami after waxing LeBron and company’s collective arses this week.

But the question remains, how much did Mark Cuban spend on his big a$$ party? $110,000 is the reported tab. Most of it went to a 90K bottle of Ace of Spade that the bartenders carries around like it was the Holy Covenant. Dirk, of course, had himself a big gulp of that bottle, too.

Here’s the question we have: how in the world does Miami just go around partying it up with the team that beat the stank out of them earlier in the evening? Shouldn’t they have more pride than that? What kind of sh*tty sports town is Miami, anyway?

The Mav’s did it y’all! And all the yang yang and bullshyte LeBron “Chokey-Doke” James was talking is now a wrap!

When Dirk Nowitzki couldn’t get anything to fall, Jason Terry couldn’t miss. When Tyson Chandler got in foul trouble, Ian Mahinmi went in and hit two memorable baskets. When DeShawn Stevenson replaced Shawn Marion as the defensive stopper, he turned three quick steals into 3-pointers. The Dallas Mavericks closed out the NBA finals on Sunday night the way they got there — as a team, with everybody from the biggest star to the least-heralded reserve finding a way to contribute.

Sound hokey? Well, remember the sacrifice one individual among this group made for the benefit of the greater good: Mark Cuban stayed silent for more than six weeks.

“We came together for a common goal and we stayed together throughout the entire season, no matter what happened, no matter what anyone threw at us,” Chandler said. “Dirk Nowitzki, Jason Kidd and Jason Terry have been out catalysts all season. But, that being said, we’re a team, a full team. They’re able to lean on us and we’re able to lean on them in time of need.”

Now that they’ve won it all, it’s easy for guys to say they saw this coming “the moment they traded for me,” as Chandler said, or “from Day 1,” as Stevenson said.

But when Terry says he “knew it in training camp,” he also can back it up. He felt so confident that in October he got a tattoo of the championship trophy on his right biceps and vowed to have it removed if this team didn’t win it all.

As Stevenson hollered across the locker room Sunday night, Terry gets to keep it now.

“I knew with this group of guys, and a healthy Caron Butler, that we had the team to do it,” Terry said, glossing over the fact Butler went down with a knee injury on New Year’s Day; he was their second-leading scorer at the time and he never returned, yet they won the title anyway.

“I mean, (Miami) had three pieces, but we have 14 or 15. With that kind of confidence in each other — the system, the coaching staff — we just believed,” Terry continued. “This team has the heart the size of Texas.”

Nowitzki was the main reason the Mavs got to the brink of a title, pulling out their first two victories by leading fourth-quarter comebacks against the Heat as well as injury (a torn tendon in the tip of his left middle finger) and illness (a sinus infection that left him with a 101-degree fever). He scored the go-ahead basket in their third win.

But in Game 6, Nowitzki missed 11 of his first 12 shots. He had only three points at halftime and Dallas was ahead anyway.

He made his first shot of the second half and began to find a groove. He went 8 of 15 over the last two quarters, scoring 18 points, but he was basically a complementary scorer to Terry, who had 27 points. Dallas won 105-95, ending the series in six games.

“I couldn’t get in a rhythm today for some reason,” Nowitzki said. “The team carried me all night long. (Terry) came out aggressive. I’ve got to give it up to the fellows. They were unbelievable tonight.”

Not a single player on this roster had won a championship; there was a combined 133 seasons and zero rings.

Nowitzki and Terry lived with the disgust of blowing a nearly 3-0 lead against Miami in the 2006 finals, and Kidd lost consecutive finals with New Jersey in 2002-03.

The emotions began to hit with 18.8 seconds left and Kidd going to the line. Nowitzki and Terry met at midcourt — right on top of the Heat’s logo — and shared a hug, the smaller Terry leaning his head on Nowitzki’s chest like a child and his dad. Nowitzki went to near the other free throw line, put a hand on his hip and exhaled. The job was done.

A week shy of his 33rd birthday, the former league MVP finally had the championship he so desperately craved. No longer will he and Kidd be part of the conversation of “best player never to win a ring.”

It’s a lift for the franchise, too. This celebration 31 years in the making was savored by hundreds of Mavericks fans, despite being halfway across the country. They stood in their blue shirts chanting “Let’s Go Mavs.”

Franchise founder Donald Carter — wearing his trademark white cowboy hat, the one that used to be part of the team’s logo — accepted the trophy from commissioner David Stern at Cuban’s request.

That’s right, Cuban willingly avoided the dramatic moment of taking the Larry O’Brien Trophy from his frequent sparring partner, Stern.

Cuban took the high road. It was a classy gesture in keeping with his willingness to avoid being part of the story line to this postseason.

But once the big ceremony was done, out came the Mark Cuban most sports fans remember.

He swore in multiple TV interviews to emphasize how proud he was of his team’s fans. He walked into a postgame news conference talking on the phone, hung up and hollered, “Did anybody inform you guys, we’re the world champions?!” On his way out, he took the trophy with him and declared it was spending the night in his room.

“You know, I probably won’t even shower for six months,” Cuban said, laughing. “My biggest fear is that I can’t remember every little part of it, every emotion, every feeling that I went through as the clock was winding down. … I was just hoping I could just do an emotional videotape of myself and just keep it. So that’s my biggest hope and fear that I’ll be able to feel this forever.”

Now that he was talking again, Cuban explained why he censored himself throughout series against the Lakers, Thunder and Heat.

“It didn’t make any sense to say anything,” he said, reciting the litany of questions he knew would surround each series. “The quieter I got, the more we won. I didn’t want to break the karma.”

Not that he thought there was a correlation between his silence and the team’s success.

“Do you really think these guys are going to play any harder or less hard because of what I say?” he said. “That’s disrespectful. They put it on the line. They didn’t care if I was naked at every game. They were going to go out there and play as hard as they could.”

They sure did. And now they have a shiny gold trophy to show for it.

Dallas is living it up right now. SMH@the Queen and them…

Once again, the Heat thought they had a game in the bag, and managed to lose a double digit lead in the fourth quarter.

The Mavericks defeated the Heat 86-83 on Tuesday to even the NBA Finals at 2-2 and, in the process, send the best-of-7 series back to Miami. But first there’s Game 5 at Dallas’ American Airlines Center.

“Game 5, the swing game,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

Thursday’s swing game could have been the potential series clincher but Miami played too poorly in the fourth quarter to make the NBA Finals a short series like it did against Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago. Miami went more than seven minutes without scoring a field goal before Dwyane Wade scored a dunk with nine seconds left in the game.

It cut the Mavericks lead to one point, but Jason Terry made two free throws with 6.7 seconds left to force Miami into a three-point shot

The Heat’s final chance seemed as broken as the fourth quarter. Wade mishandled the inbounds following a timeout but saved it by throwing a desperation pass to Mike Miller. Miller forced an awkward three-pointer that missed badly as time expired. The Mavericks outscored the Heat 21-14 in the final fourth quarter and forced six turnovers. Dirk Nowitzki led Dallas with 21 points — 11 in the final period. Wade had 32 points and Chris Bosh added 24, but Miami couldn’t overcome a poor shooting night by LeBron James. He was 3-of-11 shooting with eight points, nine rebounds and seven assists.

“We’ll work to help make it easier for [James] in the next game,” Erik Spoelstra said. “I’ve got to do a better job of making sure he’s in better positions to be aggressive and efficient.”

Nowitzki played despite a fever and was congested during his postgame news conference.

“Sitting at 2-2 right now and obviously we would like to get Game 5 at home before going back to Miami,” Nowitzki said. “That’s a big game for us.”

The Heat trailed 82-81 with 30 seconds left when Wade missed his second of two free throws. Nowitzki scored on a driving layup with 14.4 seconds left to give the Mavericks an 84-81 lead.

Three of eleven??? Get it together, LeBaby! You know this is your only chance to shut down the perpetual hate!

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It’s that time of year where the some “ladies” are watching basketaball not to see WHO scores, but rather HOW to score…

Thus we’ve outlined a short list of NBA ballers that get busy on the court and whether or not they are eligible for consumption.

Peep the following pages for the low-down…