MY MOTHER ALWAYS told me that if you can’t say something nice, say nothing at all – but I’m guessing even she is making an exception in the case of LeBron James this morning.

(Or at least, she would be if she knew who he was.)

In one of the most high-profile and protracted transfer sagas in recent memory, LBJ moved to join superstars Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh at the Miami Heat last summer. As he put it himself in his televised announcement of “the decision,” he was “taking his talents to South Beach” in order to win Championships.

Last night, that dream came to a premature end – for this year at least – as Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat 105-95 to claim the NBA Championship by four games to two.

In a move that was obviously intended to reassure the world that they’ve gotten over LeBron’s decision to leave his hometown in pursuit of glory, the Cleveland Plain Dealer got the first dig in, titling its match report “Dallas Mavericks take their talents to South Beach, leave with NBA championship, 105-95, over Miami.”

Nice.

Here’s how some of America’s other newspapers chose to record the Mavs’ first-ever Championship victory.