Dallas Mavericks Articles
Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban still hasn’t gotten completely over losing DeAndre Jordan to the Clippers, and now he has an interesting technique in retrospect. After agreeing to the initial deal, Cuban said he should have made Jordan...
Josh Hamburger
2 years ago
After getting bounced from the first round of the NBA Playoffs by the in-state rival Houston Rockets, four games to one, the Dallas Mavericks face very uncertain territory. Franchise cornerstone piece Dirk Nowitzki showed against Houston that...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
The first round of the NBA playoffs, days ago, looked to be a chalk fest. Save for the intriguing showdown between the San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers — a pairing talented enough for a conference finals meeting — we looked to...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
NCAA’s March Madness is wildly popular — but apparently it’s a dance that’s not for everyone. You can count Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban among the curmudgeons of the annual tournament. "It's uglier than...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
When somebody enters the rare air that LeBron James has, we tend to overanalyze their most minute details. Like, you know, a headband. James took the fixture off during a win over the Phoenix Suns in Cleveland over the weekend, telling...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
It looks like it’s becoming safe to say that the Dallas’ Mavericks December trade for Rajon Rondo was a mistake. The former Boston Celtics point guard was suspended for the Mavs’ 104-87 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
Monday evening’s surprising three-team swap — involving the Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks and Cleveland Cavaliers — alerted the rest of the league to how quickly the trade deadline is coming up. With February 19 looming...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
The Boston Celtics are in transition. That's why they just made the tough decision not to hold onto their last vestige of past glory. All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo was the only remaining member of their 2008 championship team that featured...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
Remember when Dirk Nowitzki ruined LeBron James and the Miami Heat’s coming-out party in the summer of 2011? Nowitzki’s Dallas Mavericks were the squad no one saw coming, with a somewhat rag-tag crew of role players, featuring an...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
Kevin Durant returned last night, and it didn't go as well as his buddy Russell Westbrook’s emphatic foray back into action last Friday night. Granted, the competition was much tougher: Westbrook slaughtered the lowly, 'Melo-less...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
The NBA’s Eastern Conference is bad, very bad — while its Western Conference is just the opposite. By season’s end, we might be facing a record-shattering competitive discrepancy between the league’s two halves. At time of...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
"Personally, I just hope they suck forever.”That was what Mark Cuban said in an L.A. radio interview recently, when asked about the sorry state of basketball’s most famous team."As far as the Lakers," Cuban said, "I...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
They say that playing with Team USA is a springboard, often providing the confidence and moxie needed to launch mere NBA stars into the rare air of MVP status. And while the new season is just one night old, New Orleans Pelicans big man Anthony...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
Paul Pierce set a hell of a tone for the NBA preseason when he poked the Chicago Bulls’ Joakim Noah in the forehead. “We’re going to be the instigators,” he said of his new club, the Washington Wizards. After more unusually...
Athlon Sports
2 years ago
LeBron James - the world’s greatest active basketball player - has officially opted-out of his contract with the Miami Heat. This wasn’t a completely unexpected move, but the timing is a bit curious. James was slated to earn $20.6...
Evan Buhler
3 years ago
The NBA season is about to tip off, which means it’s almost time for fantasy basketball. To win a championship, you’ve got to hit the draft big boards hard, fast break the waiver wire-to-wire and have the ball bounce your way. But in...
Nathan Rush
3 years ago
This article originally appeared in Athlon Sports Monthly, available in newspapers around the country.
So does Mark Cuban still sleep with the NBA championship trophy? We figured there was only one way to find out. So we asked him. Along with a...
Athlon Sports
5 years ago
Go to the :28 second mark of this video and you will see how Dwyane Wade plays basketball like a European soccer player. Jason Kidd doesn't push him, but Wade jumps up like he was just hit by a car. This is what's wrong with the NBA.
Athlon Sports
6 years ago
The NBA Finals begin Tuesday night and the Athlon Staff is truly split between which team they think is going to hoist the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy at the end. Three things we can agree on: the series won't be a sweep, it won't go less...
Corby Yarbrough
6 years ago
Dwyane Wade and Dirk Nowitzki matched up in the 2006 NBA Finals, and Wade pulled out a hard-fought win. Neither man has been this close to the Larry O’Brien Trophy since then.
The Heat had to completely burn the house down and rebuild with an...
Corby Yarbrough
6 years ago
Get everything you need about the two teams left standing in the NBA Playoffs all in one place.
Eastern Conference Champion
No. 2 seed Miami Heat
Western Conference Champion
No. 3 seed Dallas Mavericks
Athlon Sports Seven Questions of...
Corby Yarbrough
6 years ago