DALLAS— Today the Dallas Mavericks announced their roster and schedule for the 2017 Mountain Dew Orlando Pro Summer League to be held July 1-6 at the Amway Center. This year marks the second consecutive year the Mavericks have participated in the Orlando Pro Summer League and the team will open league play by matching up […]
I’m not here to call Mark Cuban a liar. But let’s just say he might have played a convincing joke on us. During a small pre-game press scrum in Sacramento at the very end of the regular season, I asked the Mavs proprietor what his club would do in the summer in order to improve. […]
Mavs guard J.J. Barea had a chat with Time’s Stephanie Apstein, in which he talked about the state of Puerto Rican basketball, his experience coming to America, and giving back to the community. Moving from the town of Mayaguez, a city of 89,000 people, to Miami in high school in 2001 created quite the culture […]
Mavs forward Dirk Nowitzki expected to enjoy a quiet evening at the inaugural NBA Awards Show, taking in the sights and sounds as his colleagues received awards and host Drake dished jokes. Before the show, Nowitzki said he looked forward to seeing Nicki Minaj perform. “I’m fired up,” he said. Turns out they’d all be […]
DALLAS – Over two dozen kids jubilantly walked into the brand new Park Ninety Six 90 Reading & Learning Center in Northeast Dallas this past Tuesday. And the immense enthusiasm shared by 12-year old Alaysia Hill is probably the same passion shared by the other youngsters. Hill said: “I thought I was in heaven.” Indeed, […]
Mavs point guard Yogi Ferrell was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team today. Ferrell, who went undrafted out of Indiana, averaged 10.0 points and 3.7 assists in 46 games during his rookie campaign. He spent 10 of those games with the Brooklyn Nets before being waived. Ferrell eventually signed a 10-day deal with the […]
There are athletes, and then there are guys like Dennis Smith Jr. Here’s a player who already won the dunk contest on Twitter over the weekend. He was reportedly dunking two weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a torn ACL in 2015. Smith is rumored to have a 48-inch vertical leap — eight inches higher than […]
Con el pick número 9 del Draft de la NBA 2017 los Dallas Mavericks seleccionaron a Dennis Smith Jr., procedente de la universidad de N.C. State, asentando así un pilar más en la base de la plantilla que defenderá la camiseta del equipo en los años venideros. Este base de primer año ha deslumbrado en […]
The Mavericks have selected point guard Dennis Smith Jr. with the ninth overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft. Smith, a freshman from NC State, compiled season averages of 18.1 points, 6.2 assists, 4.6 rebounds, and 1.9 steals per game, shooting 45.5 percent from the field and 35.9 percent from beyond the arc. He led […]