At the time of the Mavs’ only visit to Portland last season, Dallas and the Blazers were in slightly different positions than they are now. Last season, the upstart Blazers surged out to a league-best 17-3 mark when the inconsistent 12-8 Mavs pulled into town and left with a buzzer-beating win, thanks to Monta Ellis’s […]
Dallas is off to a blistering start to the 2014-15 season. The offense has sizzled to the tune of nearly 110 points per game and more than 120 points per 100 possessions, two marks that are head and shoulders above the rest of the league. The Boston Celtics will roll into town this evening, and […]
The Dallas offense could not have played much better against the Utah Jazz in the team’s home opener, and there are plenty of reasons for every player on the team to feel good about themselves heading into the third game of the season. But once the game tips off, there will be a few monsters […]
There’s a big difference between 1-1 and 0-2. Not only does losing the first two games of the season make a team feel just a bit more desperate, but in this year’s stacked Western Conference, starting behind the 8-ball makes qualifying for the playoffs that much harder. Both the Mavs and Jazz fell in their […]
With Kawhi Leonard, Tiago Splitter, and Patty Mills out for tonight’s season opener, the Mavericks are in a position to give Tim Duncan his first-ever loss in ring ceremony games. That said, the Spurs aren’t strangers to playing without key rotation players. Head coach Gregg Popovich is known to rest his entire starting lineup for […]