MIAMI -- Rip the posters off your wall. Get the tattoo rubbed out. Whoever was your hero before, forget him. I've got your new lifetime role model.

J.J. Barea.

Why?

A. He's only 5-foot-9, yet he plays for the Dallas Mavericks, who are in the NBA Finals.

B. He is about to become a very rich man.

C. He dates Miss Universe.

Any other questions?

"People come up to me all the time and say, 'Can I stand next to you, just to see?'" he says. "I guess I look so small in the lane against all those big guys, they can't really believe I do what I do."

What he's done lately is drive the rest of the league sanitarium-crazy and help propel Dallas within four wins of an NBA title.

"He's fearless," says Miami coach Erik Spoelstra, who admits he has to "game plan" in these Finals for a guy who looks like his grocery sacker. "One-on-three, one-on-two. He'll find a way to get in those gaps."

Spoelstra, in fact, is talking about putting 6-8, 250-pound LeBron James Himself on Barea at times.

So, J.J., you looking forward to being guarded by The Chosen One? The guy who made Derrick Rose shoot 6 percent against him?

"No question!" Barea says. "I'll try to go by anybody."