Dwyane Wade(notes) and the Miami Heat made it to the sixth game of the NBA Finals before succumbing to Dirk Nowitzki(notes) and the Dallas Mavericks. Now, Wade isn’t planning to take a break even if the NBA season isn’t played.

The Associated Press reports that Wade has decided to play somewhere next season, whether it’s in the NBA or not. “I’m going to play basketball this year,” Wade told the AP. “I don’t know where, but I love the game so much that I will play it. And we will figure that out.”

The 29-year-old guard also told the news service that he hasn’t received any international offers yet.

For now, Wade is preparing for the NBA season in case it somehow starts on time, the AP reports: “I’m working into things slowly. Right now I’m taking my time, doing what I do for my body, which might be different than others.”

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Source: Associated Press

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IDG News Service —
His Miami Heat team lost the NBA finals to the Dallas Mavericks last month and now Dwyane Wade is headed back to a Texas court, but not to play basketball.

Instead of facing Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki, Wade is going after currently unknown perpetrators who in recent years hacked a variety of his personal online accounts.

Wade, one of the best players in the National Basketball Association (NBA), named as defendants 50 generic “John Does” in a complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Wade filed the civil lawsuit in Texas because a substantial amount of the hacking activity allegedly initiated in the state, where in 2006 Wade led the Miami Heat to its first and only championship, beating the Mavericks.

If it were proven that the alleged hacking was indeed carried out from Texas, it will be interesting to see if part of the motivation was to get back at Wade over the basketball rivalry.

Wade alleges that between 2007 and last month, malicious hackers broke into various of his online accounts, including a Yahoo e-mail account and a Twitter account, and accessed and misused sensitive information and communications contained in them.

Wade is seeking a temporary and permanent injunction forbidding the malicious hackers from further accessing and using any of the compromised personal and business data. He also seeks to recover unspecified damages based on the harm inflicted by the hacking.

The player alleges that the defendants created mayhem after compromising his online accounts, changing account settings, including his password, and using the accounts to impersonate him for malicious purposes, such as threatening and insulting other people, and deceiving them into disclosing confidential information.

The Dallas Mavericks defeated
the Miami Heat 112-103 to move within one win of their
first National Basketball Association championship.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 29 points and Dallas went 13-of-
19 on 3-pointers to lead the best-of-seven NBA Finals by
three games to two.

Jason Terry added 21 points and hit two key 3-pointers
in the closing minutes as the Mavericks ended last night’s
game at American Airlines Center in Dallas with a 17-4 run.
Two days earlier, the Mavericks finished with a 21-9 run to
win 86-83.

“It’s just like being out there on the playground
back home in Seattle,” Terry said in a news conference.
“Emulating your idols in the Finals situation, game on the
line. Raise up, knock it down.”

LeBron James scored two points in the fourth quarter
for the Heat, continuing his late-game struggles in this
series. He scored five points in the final period of Game
1, two in each of the next two games and none in Game 4.

After scoring a career playoff low eight points in
Game 4, James had 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists
last night for his seventh career playoff triple-double and
first of this year’s postseason.

“A triple-double means absolutely nothing with a
loss,” James told reporters. “I could have made a couple
of more plays for my team.”

Dwyane Wade overcame a hip injury to lead Miami with
23 points and Chris Bosh added 19.

The Mavericks went 20-for-32 on 3-pointers in a 122-86
victory on May 8 that completed a second-round sweep of the
reigning champion Los Angeles Lakers. They were even more
accurate last night — shooting 68 percent from beyond the
3-point arc.

3-Point Shooting

Terry, 33, and 38-year-old Jason Kidd both went 3-for-
5 on 3-pointers. J.J. Barea, at 6 feet (1.83 meters) the
smallest player on the court, went 4-for-5 and Nowitzki hit
his only 3-point attempt.

“He made big shots,” James said of Terry. “He made
some great 3-point shots tonight, with a hand contested in
his face, some of them was open. He’s just aggressive.
We’ve always said that when he plays well they’re very
tough to beat and that’s what he’s done the last two
games.”

It was the first game in the series in which either
team scored 100 or more points.

Return to Miami

Game 6 is set for Miami on June 12. If the Heat win,
they’ll host the decider two days later.

“We didn’t want go to Miami and give them two shots
to close this out,” Nowitzki said at a news conference.
“We’re going in there Sunday swinging, like we did
today.”

The Mavericks led almost the entire first quarter
before Mario Chalmers sank a shot from just inside half
court at the buzzer to give Miami a 31-30 advantage.

Wade bruised his hip with about four minutes left in
the first quarter in a collision with Dallas forward Brian Cardinal, who was trying to take a charge. Wade returned
early in the second quarter and limped for the rest of the
half.

He missed most of the third period and the Mavericks
led 84-79 entering the fourth quarter.

‘No Problem’

“I’ll be good for Game 6,” Wade told reporters. “No
problem at all.”

Allowing the Mavericks to score easy baskets in the
first half gave them the confidence they needed to hit hard
ones late in the game, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said.

“If you’re given good shots during the course of the
game, you can make tough shots down the stretch,” he said
at a news conference.

To contact the reporters on this story:
Mason Levinson at American Airlines Center in Dallas at
mlevinson@bloomberg.net;
Rob Gloster in San Francisco at
rgloster@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Michael Sillup at msillup@bloomberg.net

DALLAS – The Dallas Mavericks closed the fourth period on a 14-3 run to beat the Miami Heat 112-103, win Game 5 Thursday night, and pull within one win of their first NBA title.

Dirk Nowitzki led the Mavs with 29 points and LeBron James had a triple-double with 17 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, but scored just two points in the fourth quarter.

The Mavs lead the series 3-2 with Game 6 Sunday in Miami.

Dwyane Wade, playing with a bruised left hip, led the Heat with 23 points.

Third quarter

The Dallas Mavericks used a 10-2 run to build a lead of as many as nine and lead the Miami Heat 84-79 at the end of three quarters.

Heat guard Dwyane Wade didn’t come back into the game out of the halftime break until just under four minutes remained in the quarter. He has a bruised left hip. Three Heat players, LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Mario Chalmers each have 15 points.

The Mavs are being led by Dirk Nowitzki who has 21.

Second quarter

Dirk Nowitzki scored the last six points of the quarter for Dallas Mavericks who lead the Miami Heat 60-57 at halftime.

Chris Bosh leads the Heat with 13 while Dwyane Wade, who returned to the game after a hip bruise, has 11.

Nowitzki had 16 points and Tyson Chandler 11 for the Mavs.

Dallas is shooting 66 percent from the field but is being out-rebounded 18-12.

First quarter

Miami Heat guard Mario Chalmers hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Miami Heat a 31-30 lead after one quarter.

Heat guard Dwyane Wade went to the dressing room late in the quarter after running into the Mavs’ Brian Cardinal and appearing to injury a hip or hand.

Tyson Chandler leads all scorers with nine points. LeBron James is 1 of 4 from the field with four rebounds and three assists. 

Pregame

Brendan Haywood’s sore right hip will keep him inactive for tonight’s Game 5 between the Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat at American Airlines Center.

Mavs Coach Rick Carlisle said before the game that guard Roddy Beaubois would be on the team’s active list.

Carlisle would not release his starting lineup for tonight’s game, as is his custom, until shortly before tip off.

DALLAS —
Mavericks 86, Heat 83 — Series tied 2-2

A switch in the starting lineup, then a switch of their defense.

The Dallas Mavericks pulled out all the tricks, and that allowed them to pull out an 86-83 victory over the Miami Heat on Tuesday night to even the NBA finals at two games apiece.

Revived by a switch to a zone defense, the Mavericks held the Heat without a field goal for more than 7 minutes in the fourth quarter, rallying from five points down nearly midway through the period.

And on the court during that late run was DeShawn Stevenson, sent to the bench to start the game as Mavs coach Rick Carlisle changed his lineup. Known as a defensive player, Stevenson kept the Mavs close in the first half with 11 points, but was back to his traditional role down the stretch.

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