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Jason "Jet" Terry
2011 NBA Champion, Sixth Man of the Year, Dallas Mavericks

Jason Terry is a Dallas Mavericks icon and one of the best sixth men the NBA has ever had. The Jet spent eight seasons in Dallas, won the 2009 Sixth Man of the Year award, and became the sinker of huge shots, including the corner three in Game 6 of the 2011 NBA Finals that helped close out Miami and bring the city its first championship.
He was so sure Dallas would win that title that he had the Larry O'Brien Trophy tattooed on his arm before the season started, then went out and averaged 18 points a game in the Finals to make sure he did not have to explain it. He finished his nineteen-year career with 18,000-plus points and 2,282 three-pointers, which still ranks among the ten most in league history, after arriving as the tenth overall pick in 1999 out of Arizona, where he won a national title in 1997.
Terry has stayed in the game since retiring, coaching at Arizona, running the bench as head coach of the G League's Grand Rapids Gold, and joining the Utah Jazz staff as an assistant. Around here, though, he is still the guy who spread his arms wide and took off down the floor at the American Airlines Center.
