We are living in the what’s-next generation. Finish lunch, and we start wondering what’s for dinner. Pay the rent, we see if there’s enough left for a night on the town. Make the playoffs, finish the season, analyze what’s next for the Mavericks. Coach Rick Carlisle wasted no time hitting on a key point for […]
The season ended for the Dallas Mavericks with Sunday’s 111-97 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers inside the NBA bubble. But the Mavs see this as a new beginning, the first part of a giant positive stepping stone to the future. Not picked before this season to advance to the playoffs, the Mavs not only […]
Overachievers to the end, the Mavericks battled the Los Angeles Clippers through injuries and boycotts, all the way to the end of what will be remembered as a brutally hard-fought six-game series. In the end, the Clippers proved to be the better team. But not by much. They simply had too much Kawhi Leonard. The […]
It comes down to this for the Mavericks. After boycotts and talks and coalitions and all the things that have transpired since Tuesday, they still face the same daunting challenge: they have to win on Sunday afternoon or their season is over. They have beaten the Los Angeles Clippers twice, once without Kristaps Porzingis. The […]
Kristaps Porzingis isn’t quite sure if the lateral menisus tear in his right knee will eventually require surgery. But the Dallas Mavericks’ forward is holding out hope that it won’t. An MRI performed earlier this week revealed the tear, and Porzingis said he had been taking some Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) injections to help alleviate the […]
In the aftermath of the boycott of Game 6 of their first-round playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Dallas Mavericks have pledged seven days of ACTION! to combat racial injustices around the country, and to bring attention to, lead change and invest in organizations fighting racial disparities and inequities in the Dallas-Fort Worth […]
The Dallas Mavericks were back on the practice court Friday after two days of talks among players, coaches and owners and the postponement of six NBA playoff games in the wake of last Sunday’s shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Blake, a black man, was shot seven times in the back by a white Kenosha, […]
When last we saw the Los Angeles Clippers, they were dismantling the Mavericks in Game 5 of the first-round series. Since then, the world has taken another strange turn, players have boycotted the game they love, and then realized playing basketball is a job and a platform worth having. But the basketball world will resume. There […]
Kristaps Porzingis has suffered a torn lateral meniscus in his right knee and will miss the remainder of the first-round series against the Los Angeles Clippers. The 7-3 center suffered the injury in Game 1 when he played just 20 minutes. He started Games 2 and 3, playing 36 and 38 minutes, but sat out […]
LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS (3-2) at MAVERICKS (2-3) Time: 2:30 p.m., Sunday Location: Lake Buena Vista, Fla. TV: FSSW, ESPN. Radio: ESPN 103.3 FM; Univision 1270 AM (Spanish) About the Mavs: After the game, originally scheduled for Thursday, was postponed, the NBA players decided to resume the playoffs and now the game will be played with […]