Problem is for these Eastern Conference champion Nets, they are playing against a Lakers team that is one victory away from becoming a pro basketball dynasty.

A basketball dynasty is a season away from expiring.

Would some entrepreneur seek to clone enough Michael Jordans to make an unbeatable basketball dynasty?

Luck and fate and magic are how rituals, if not basketball dynasties, are made.

And the Houston Comets' three-peat earned them a legacy alongside other basketball dynasties.

The basketball dynasty bulled on toward a championship even with its human psycho-drama on hiatus.

Coach John Wooden built a basketball dynasty at the University of California-Los Angeles, winning 10 NCAA championships, including seven in a row from 1967 through 1973.

But on that, and a shoestring budget of $1,048 for a school year - to run all the sports programs and physical education, too - he has been able to establish a basketball dynasty.

Real or imagined, Bergtraum High School may be the only basketball dynasty in the country that crushes opponents while dealing the underdog card every time it plays.

His team won the 1995 Korać Cup, a former European international pro basketball tournament, and began building a German basketball dynasty.