The Dallas Mavericks along with BEDGEAR and Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM) spent Friday morning honoring first responders at Dallas Fire Station No. 1. The fire station received 12 new twin mattresses from BEDGEAR, and NFM donated six recliners, three cooling fans, and an entertainment set to make the most of their rest and recovery time. The […]
When Theo Pinson looks back at last season, he doesn’t like dredging up most of what happened. But the Mavericks’ guard prefers to zero in on the one thing that he remembers most: Game No. 82. In his first NBA start, Pinson piled up a triple-double of 23 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists. “I […]
The Dallas Mavericks donated 30 pairs of Nike tennis shoes to students at the School for the Talented and Gifted (STAG) in Pleasant Grove on Wednesday afternoon as part of the MAVS FIT initiative, courtesy of Ford, which encourages MFFLs of all ages to be active, eat healthily and play together. Dallas ISD launched STAG in […]
When Mavs Academy begins its 2023 hoop camp season on Tuesday, a familiar face will be there helping oversee things. It’s the 31st season of the Mavericks’ hoop camps, and Patrick Gaines has been there since the very start. To say there have been a few changes since that first youth camp in 1992 wouldn’t […]
Daisy Mendoza, a senior high school student from the Young Women’s Leadership Academy in Dallas, always knew she was born to be different. She wanted to pave a new path in her family and become the first person to attend college. This week, the high schooler will take the first step toward her future when […]
The Dallas Mavericks and Mavs Gaming, in partnership with the Dallas Wings and Texas Legends, hosted an event with students at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School Monday afternoon to spotlight the importance of mental health, self-care and trauma healing. The DFW Bigger Than Basketball Coalition is a collaboration of North Texas professional basketball teams who […]
CHICAGO – Fresh from helping the University of Connecticut capture the NCAA national title a little over a month ago, Andre Jackson Jr. is one of several dozen prospects at this week’s NBA Combine trying to show NBA scouts, general managers and other executives that he’s more than ready to take the next step in […]
It wasn’t quite as franchise-changing as winning Tuesday’s NBA draft lottery and securing the rights to French mega-star-in-waiting Victor Wembanyama was for the San Antonio Spurs. But for the Mavericks, keeping their 10th-overall draft pick was an important moment. Retaining a big asset – and drafting 10th is a pretty major nugget – was the […]
CHICAGO – There are a host of players from all over the world at the Wintrust Arena trying to impress NBA scouts and executives with their basketball skill set. Erick Dampier was one of them back in the day. In 1996, Dampier was a 6-11 hot-shot center out of Mississippi State who came to the […]
CHICAGO – In a city Michael Jordan helped make famous, this was rarefied air for Dallas Mavericks assistant general manager Michael Finley. During Tuesday’s NBA Draft Lottery, Finley was the commander of the Mavs’ most prestigious position of the night. A Chicago native himself, Finley was nestled in a room at the McCormick Place alongside […]