So you may have heard — the Dallas Mavericks are headed to the NBA Finals. Businesses are booming in Dallas, and now, even the city’s walls have come alive for playoff season, even though the Dallas Stars season ended Sunday night with a loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
Your local 7-Eleven might be painted blue or green since you last checked. The Irving-based chain has commissioned local artists for murals since 2021, and recent ones are dedicated to the Mavs and Stars, like the ones below from Dallas artists Bwaresparks, Skilz and Jeremy Biggers.
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So you may have heard — the Dallas Mavericks are headed to the NBA Finals. Businesses are booming in Dallas, and now, even the city’s walls have come alive for playoff season, even though the Dallas Stars season ended Sunday night with a loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
Your local 7-Eleven might be painted blue or green since you last checked. The Irving-based chain has commissioned local artists for murals since 2021, and recent ones are dedicated to the Mavs and Stars, like the ones below from Dallas artists Bwaresparks, Skilz and Jeremy Biggers.
Biggers, a local award-winning multidisciplinary artist, has left his mark around town in murals for both teams. His Stars mural pictured below looks opposite the Trader Joe’s on Lower Greenville.
Biggers also showed up in the Dallas Mavericks’ playoffs commercial in front of his blue-themed mural of Fort Worth native Leon Bridges in a Mavericks uniform. The mural spanned half of a long brick wall in the center of Deep Ellum on the side of a Patagonia store.
Biggers wrote in the comment that he grew up “the biggest Mavs fan you could imagine.”
“In college I had every single player on the team’s jersey, home and away,” Biggers wrote. To be part of the NBA playoff promo “is actually unbelievable for me.”
The American Airlines Center, where both the Stars and the Mavericks play, had been switching off hosting each team as they advanced in their respective conferences.
Since 1982, American Airlines Center is the sixth venue in history to simultaneously host both the NBA and NHL conference finals. Out of the previous five, only three have seen a team win a championship, and no arena has ever had teams win both titles in the same season.
The Mavericks now head to Boston for Game 1 to face the Celtics in the NBA Finals. The Stars lost to the Oilers on Sunday night and will not advance.
CLARIFICATION, 4:39 p.m., June 5, 2024: The photo caption for the featured image in this story has been updated to include the name of the mural’s artists and the name of the company that owns the building.