The games have lived up to the hype, with four of them decided at the end and the home team winning each time. The difference in the series is that Dallas easily won Game 2 in San Antonio when Harris surprisingly joined Terry in a backcourt featuring two point guards.

Plus, the tight finishes have been matched by drama off the court: Cuban getting fined $200,000 for badmouthing of officials, the battle of wits between Spurs coach Gregg Popovich and his protege-turned-foe Johnson, and the saga of Finley facing the team that cut him this summer but is paying the majority of his $14.6 million salary.

His San Antonio teammates and coaches have been outraged that he's been getting booed in Dallas, even though he said he expected it because he's on the other side now. Nowitzki jokingly encouraged fans to jeer his good friend for the same reason.

Finley spent the previous nine seasons with the Mavericks, making the All-Star team twice. He was no longer producing at the level of his salary and Dallas used the league's one-time amnesty clause to waive him last summer. He remains the fourth-leading scorer in franchise history.

Finley and Stackhouse tangled at the end of Game 2, with Stackhouse getting a technical foul.