<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After a while, you weren't thinking Baron Davis. You were thinking Larry Bird, Vinnie Johnson, Charles Barkley or the fabled Eric "Sleepy" Floyd. When somebody gets that hot in the playoffs, it stays in the memory forever. The fact that it was Davis, and the Warriors, made it especially rewarding on a stirring Sunday night in Dallas. Throw in the sight of a petulant Mark Cuban, looking like a 10-year-old kid who just got his bike stolen -- by a girl -- and the Warriors' return to the NBA playoffs was incomprehensibly sweet. It may not get any better than this, although the possibility certainly exists. The Mavericks didn't just go down in front of a baffled home crowd, they looked positively ordinary. Dirk Nowitzki spent the entire evening not stepping up, and the stairs remained empty from then on. This regular-season juggernaut showed up without a hint of leadership.</div>Source
