LAS VEGAS – Kel’el Ware showed why the Miami Heat chose him with the 15th overall pick in last month’s NBA Draft. The 7-foot, 242-pound center produced game highs of 24 points and 10 rebounds in leading the Heat to a 92-79 win over the…
LAS VEGAS – Although he obviously wanted to come out on the winning end of the stick, Dallas Mavericks summer league coach Jared Dudley can accept last Saturday’s 90-89 loss to the Utah Jazz. However, in analyzing Monday’s 108-88 blowout…
LAS VEGAS – Almost before the Dallas Mavericks even had any designs on winning their first game at the NBA 2k25 Summer League, the Memphis Grizzlies quickly took those chances away. The Grizzlies put up a ferocious defensive front in…
LAS VEGAS – Jamarion Sharp probably have one of the most intriguing recruiting stories of all time. While Sharp was a high school junior in Hopkinsville, Ky., Western Kentucky coach Rick Stansbury was attending one of Sharp’s game, but was…
LAS VEGAS – The Dallas Mavericks seemingly had control of Saturday’s NBA 2K25 Summer League opener against the Utah Jazz. The Mavs led, 59-48, early in the third quarter. But the Jazz went on a furious 30-11 run and proceeded to edge the…
LAS VEGAS – With much respect for the other players, for the Dallas Mavericks, this summer league is all about forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper. And for good reasons. Since Prosper’s rookie season didn’t go the way him or the Mavs wanted it…
Some folks wear their emotions on their sleeves. Others don’t need sleeves. Mavericks’ swingman A.J. Lawson has been fighting the good fight on the basketball court for years. Ever since going undrafted in 2021 after three productive…
After his Mavericks’ deal was in place, Quentin Grimes was hanging with a few friends when he found out Klay Thompson was joining the team as a free agent. Grimes’ reaction? “I told my friends: I’m about to get a ring,” Grimes said. “One…
PLANO — As Dallas Mavericks forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper glanced out at the crowd of approximately 200 kids attending the Mavs Academy Hoop Camp on Tuesday at Prestonwood Church, he couldn’t help but feel like someone had turned back…
Naji Marshall is his own man. But as he begins his Mavericks’ career, it’s going to be inevitable that he will be looked at as the replacement for Derrick Jones Jr. DJJ 2.0, if you will. And that’s OK with Marshall. He’s got time and a…
Approximately 44 years ago, Rolando Blackman was living his best life. In 1980 while playing for Kansas State, Blackman won Big Eight Player of the Year honors and also was named third-team All-American. He capped that year off by going…
Conducting his first interview as a Maverick, Klay Thompson gave a simple analysis of his game as he prepares to enter the next chapter of his career. “At this point,” he said with a bit of a sly grin, “you still can’t leave me open.” No,…
As the Dallas Mavericks started preparing Monday for the NBA2k Summer League 2024 — which begins this weekend in Las Vegas — Jared Dudley explained the goals that have been set up for him. And that includes getting second-year forward…
He’s affectionally known as half of the Golden State Warriors’ iconic backcourt dubbed the Splash Brothers. However, after Klay Thompson played 13 years with the Warriors, he and the Dallas Mavericks made a big splash of their own as the…
If you were building a prototype of a perfect player for the Mavericks’ culture of 2024-25, you might not find a better fit than Naji Marshall. A self-made rotation player for the New Orleans Pelicans, the 6-7 Marshall did it the old…
Tim Hardaway Jr., a second-generation Maverick and one of the few players who can say they started alongside Dirk Nowitzki, Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving, has been traded to the Detroit Pistons. The 6-5 shooting guard was dealt along with…
A.J. Lawson, Olivier-Maxence Prosper and rookie Melvin Ajinca headline the Dallas Mavericks’ NBA 2K25 Summer League roster which was released Wednesday. Lawson initially joined the Mavs in time to play on their 2022 summer league team, and…
A day after he turned 20 years old, Melvin Ajinca celebrated by becoming the newest member of the Dallas Mavericks. A product of Saint-Quentin in France’s top league, Ajinca was chosen Thursday by the New York Knicks on the second round of…
As the first round of the NBA draft began with a thick French accent, then weaved its way through 30 picks Wednesday night, the Mavericks watched and waited. The first half of the two-day event came and went with the Mavericks knowing that…
The Mavericks go into Wednesday’s first round of the NBA draft without a selection. Their only pick in the 2024 draft is No. 58 – the last pick of the second round, thanks to Phoenix and Philadelphia forfeiting their choices in the second…
When Nico Harrison breaks down the season the Mavericks just had – and more importantly game-plans for the future – he has a clear vision of what’s needed for this team. Keep them together. And keep them growing. The demands of the general…
In wrapping a nice little bow around the 2023-24 season, Dallas Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving is convinced that what transpired over the past year is only the beginning of something beautiful for a team that defied the odds and advanced to…
BOSTON – The Boston Celtics finally got over the hump. But unfortunately, it was against the Dallas Mavericks. The Celtics lost in the 2017 and ’18 Eastern Conference Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers, in the 2020 and 2023 conference…
The Mavericks will look back at their two-month run in the NBA playoffs and realize it was packed with moments that they will never forget. And we’re not even talking about the woman who clearly was in the throes of passion somewhere near…
BOSTON – The Mavericks have been cultivating the game of rookie Dereck Lively II behind the scenes throughout this season. He’s been working on the corner three-pointer in practices, individual workout sessions and elsewhere, far from the…
BOSTON – The Celtics were tough enough on the defensive end in the NBA Finals to make the Marlboro Man look like Tinkerbell. As the clock ticked down on their season, with the Celtics and their passionate crowd ready to celebrate, the…
BOSTON – In the aftermath of losing Game 5 to the Boston Celtics on Monday night at TD Garden, 106-88, thus losing the NBA Finals, Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd reminded his listeners that this is just the beginning of a journey for…
BOSTON – If the Dallas Mavericks can reach back and put on a sterling defensive performance in Game 5 against the Boston Celtics similar to what they produced in Game 4, this best-of-seven NBA Finals series will almost assuredly be headed…
While the Mavericks have to look at their 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals like it can be overcome, which it has been before, the Celtics will try to remind themselves of who they are – still the overwhelming favorites to hoist the Larry…
BOSTON – For the Dallas Mavericks, the math is simple. Win Game 5, and there will be a Game 6. Win Game 6, and there will be a Game 7. But the first calculated move for the Mavs is to make sure they make all the numbers add up while they…