When you think of great scoring machines, you think of NBA players who have piled up massive points but didn’t do a whole lot else. Adrian Dantley, Alex English, Reggie Miller, Ray Allen. All great players, but mostly just pure scorers, which is, after all, the object of the game. Luka Dončić clearly is more […]
Usually, this is a question reserved for baseball, but we have to ask it about the NBA. Is the ball juiced? Maybe that would answer the question of why there are so many ginormous individual scoring games this season. There’s already been more 50-point games, 19, this season than all of last season. Luka Dončić […]
The Dallas Mavericks, American Airlines and Nick & Sam’s hosted the 16th annual Seats for Soldiers hallmark event Monday night in Dallas, flying in more than 80 service members from Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio for the game. The military members are either wounded, ill or injured, and the annual event was created […]
On a bitter-cold night outside, Luka Dončić gave a small but exuberant crowd that braved the elements 53 reasons to feel all warm and cuddly inside American Airlines Center. The Mavericks needed just about all of those 53 points to escape a feisty bunch of Detroit Pistons, who may have one of the worst records […]
Hand-wringing. White-knuckling. Nervous stomach. No, it’s not a turbulent airline flight. It’s the NBA trade deadline, which comes in 10 days – a stretch of time that is certain to produce lots of speculation and cause a lot of edgy moments for some players. As coach Jason Kidd said when asked if it bothers any […]
SALT LAKE CITY – With their two leading scorers – Luka Doncic and Christian Wood – out with injuries, Saturday was shaping up to be an extra tough day at the office for the Mavericks. But after a shaky first half, the Mavs showed some spunk in the second half before losing to the Utah […]
There’s a scene in the musical Hamilton when general George Washington tells Alexander Hamilton that “dying is easy, young man, living is harder.” It’s the same with winning in the NBA. It’s a lot harder than losing. But it’s a lot more fun, too. The Mavericks need to have some fun during this two-game stay […]
SALT LAKE CITY – Spencer Dinwiddie won the lottery on Saturday. Not that lottery. But thanks to playing in Saturday’s game against the Utah Jazz, the Dallas Mavericks’ guard hit the jackpot. When he played for Brooklyn, Dinwiddie signed a three-year contract for nearly $60 million in the summer of 2021. It was a sign-and-trade […]
SALT LAKE CITY – For the second game in a row with Luka Doncic out nursing a sprained left ankle, Spencer Dinwiddie put a 30-plus point night on the scoreboard. However, unlike Thursday night when Dinwiddie’s 36 points helped the Dallas Mavericks defeat the Phoenix Suns, his 35 points weren’t enough Saturday night as the […]