When you win an NBA championship, you are supposed to get a championship ring.
That’s just how it is.
And after winning the 2011 championship, Dallas Mavericks players want to be able to show off the same type of bling other previous winners have gotten to show off.
The AP reports:
Mark Cuban’s idea to celebrate an NBA championship with something other than a ring is being soundly rejected by his players, his coach and the top guy in the front office.
“We’ve got to talk to him about that,” said Dirk Nowitzki, the finals MVP. “I don’t think the last word has been spoken yet. We know he always wants to do something different, something bigger. But the ring is just so classic. I think I would vote for a ring. I mean, I’m a man. I don’t know how I’d feel about a bracelet.”
Donnie Nelson, the president of basketball operations, even made a bold offer.
“I’ll pay for them,” he said. “Now, they might have to be plastic.”
Cuban called rings “old school … done,” adding that he wants to “take it to the next level and do something different.”
I will assume Cuban will give the players what they want.
