Dorian Finney-Smith is the ‘pit bull’ the Mavericks needed alongside Doncic and Porzingis

Three years ago, on the night of the 2016 NBA Draft, Dorian Finney-Smith was angry and disappointed. He had just finished his third year at the University of Florida and was awaiting his name to be called and his dream to be fulfilled. But it never happened. Finney-Smith went undrafted. Then Rick Carlisle came calling. […]

Top Ten Tuesday: Luka switches shoes, Barea is back and Carlisle wins a challenge

The Mavs went 2-2 over the past week with wins and losses both at home and on the road. Dallas took care of business vs. Orlando at home while losing to the Knicks on Friday night. They bounced back on the road in Memphis, but would lose their first road game of the season in […]

Top-Five Tuesdays: Luka, KP, and the (still unnamed) bench are firing on all cylinders

Last week in Mavs basketball… The Mavericks played three games over the past week, going 2-1 and improving their record to 4-2 on the season. The bench unit led the way in a big win in Denver while the Lakers pulled away in an emotional loss in overtime on Friday. The week was capped off […]

The Mavericks are building a family and it started weeks before training camp

For the first time in 21 seasons, Dirk Nowitzki wasn’t the face of media day to start off a new season for the Dallas Mavericks. He wasn’t the last to speak at the podium in interview room 1 nor was he making jokes in the depths of the AAC with a new batch of teammates. […]

Defense is his forte, but don’t overlook Delon Wright’s offense

For the Dallas Mavericks, one of the first calls in free agency was to restricted free agent Delon Wright. The 26-year-old Wright had just been traded to Memphis in February as the key piece in a deal sending Marc Gasol to Toronto. After a stellar end to the season, Wright hit restricted free agency with […]

How good was Kristaps Porzingis the last time he took the court? Good. Very Good

It was Feb. 6, 2018, and the New York Knicks were hosting the Milwaukee Bucks in Madison Square Garden. It was the second quarter with just under nine minutes to go when the Knicks drew up a play to hit the star big man, Kristaps Porzingis, near the top of the key. The off-ball screen […]

Dirk Nowitzki: Our rock in the crazy world around us

A few days have passed since Dirk Nowitzki announced his retirement from the NBA. An eventful week that was full of memories, emotions, and gratitude as people from around the world honored the Nowitzki’s career both in Dallas and from afar. Now, the dust has settled. Nowitzki and his teammates went through their final exit […]

Mavs vets look back on their time in March Madness

Come around the team this time of the year and you might hear a different kind of basketball being brought up in conversation. You might see teammates talking trash to each other while some of them are glued to the television monitors in the locker room. It is March Madness. Of the 16 players on […]

Jalen Brunson is proving this Mavs rookie class consists of two first-round talents, not just one

June 21, 2018 will always be a date that will go down in franchise history. Coming off two seasons with a combined 57 wins, the Mavericks were due for their second top-10 pick in back-to-back years. Except this time, it was the fifth overall pick in the draft. They desperately needed another young piece to […]

A mid-season Q&A with Harrison Barnes on his role, the upcoming summer, and more

In the midst of his third season in Dallas, Harrison Barnes continues to be a leader both on and off the court. Statistically, Barnes is second on the team in scoring and shooting his highest percentage from beyond the arc since he arrived in Dallas. A little over the halfway point of the season, I […]