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    The 2011 NBA Finals will be the championship alternation of the 2010–11 NBA division and the cessation of the season's playoffs. The champions of the Eastern Conference the Miami Heat will face the Dallas Mavericks, the champions of the Western Conference beneath a 2–3–2 circling starting on Tuesday May 31 and catastrophe no after than Tuesday June 14, on ABC.

    This NBA Finals is a rematch of the 2006 alternation (dubbed the American Airlines Series), won by Miami in six games. It will be additionally the aboriginal time back 2006 that neither the Los Angeles Lakers nor the San Antonio Spurs will represent the Western Conference in the Finals and alone the additional time back 1998. This will additionally mark the aboriginal time back 1998 that neither Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal nor Tim Duncan will arise in the NBA Finals. Back the Heat had a more good almanac than the Mavericks, they will accept home-court advantage and it will be alone the additional time that the Eastern Conference had home cloister advantage during the Finals back the end of the Michael Jordan era in 1998. The 2011 alternation will mark the aboriginal time a Finals bold is to be played in the ages of May back 1986. It additionally marks the aboriginal time the championship alternation begins on a Tuesday back 1990 (coincidentally with that alternation accepting the aforementioned Tuesday-Thursday-Sunday circling as this series).

  

     This is the additional NBA Finals actualization of both the Mavericks and the Heat, and the aboriginal rematch of an NBA Finals alternation not involving the Lakers or Celtics back the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz met in the 1998 NBA Finals.

       2011 will mark the aboriginal time back 1998 in which the NBA Finals alpha afore the Stanley Cup Finals activate their series. The 2011 Stanley Cup Finals commences the abutting day, Wednesday June 1.

The Finals were originally projected to activate on Thursday June 9, but were pushed up advanced one week, and due to negotiations on an approaching league-wide lockout at the end of the season.