Dallas Mavericks

On Tuesday night, after the Dallas Mavericks won over the Phoenix Suns, Dirk Nowitzki officially announced his retirement from the NBA. “As you guys might expect, this is my last home game,” Nowitzki told the crowd at American Airlines Center during a postgame ceremony to honor him. “I’m trying my yoga breathing, but it’s not [...]

While no current NBA star or active player was traded on Thursday night, the NBA Draft still brought with it plenty of fireworks as the top young prospects in the world and NBA teams played a game of musical chairs. There were a few big trades early on and a few surprises (Micheal Porter’s fall [...]

The Dallas Mavericks informed Dirk Nowitzki they would be declining his team option on Sunday. But don’t worry: This is all part of a plan. He isn’t going anywhere. Here’s ESPN.com’s Marc Stein with the deets: The Dallas Mavericks have informed Dirk Nowitzki that they will decline their $25 million team option for next season [...]

The Dallas Mavericks are owners of the NBA’s fourth-worst record, but head coach Rick Carlisle doesn’t care. Okay, fine. He cares. But he still loves this team more than most of his other squads, per Mavs.com’s Earl K. Sneed: [tweet https://twitter.com/EarlKSneed/status/821504321787490304] We’ll go ahead and assume the title-winning group from 2011 is higher up there than the [...]

When Andrew Bogut became a member of the Dallas Mavericks, by way of a trade from the Golden State Warriors, you always kind of knew the marriage would be temporary. Bogut turned 32 in November and is a free agent after this season. Though the Mavericks are forever obsessed with making the most of Dirk [...]

Andrew Bogut, 32, has no problem coming off the Dallas Mavericks’ bench. In fact, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon, he prefers it: Center Andrew Bogut will be coming off the bench for the foreseeable future due to the problems the Dallas Mavericks have had playing him next to Dirk Nowitzki. Bogut and Nowitzki have played only [...]

Sorry, Boston Celtics. Though A. Sherrod Blakely of CSNNE.com said that the Celtics would consider trying to trade for Andrew Bogut as a way of beefing up their defense, the NBA-worst Dallas Mavericks apparently aren’t having it, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: Sources tell ESPN that Mavs have no immediate intention to shop Andrew Bogut, as [...]

Every so often, Dirk Nowitzki, 38, says something that we must interpret as a career update. This is one of those times. Asked yet again about his future in the NBA, Nowitzki told Talk Basket’s John Hobbs that he intends to finish out the contract he signed with the Dallas Mavericks this summer before riding [...]

Andrew Bogut has been a member of the Dallas Mavericks for, like, a minute, and yet he’s already thinking about staying with them beyond this season. From NBA.com’s Scott Howard-Cooper: Next summer, Bogut will be 32 and a free agent, able to select a championship contender for another run at a ring. Yet his first [...]

The Dallas Mavericks, it turns out, didn’t hand Harrison Barnes a four-year, $94 million deal just for him to be an offensive decoy. They are investing in his future as a featured option, in a way the Golden State Warriors never could or wanted to. Some will find this to be an impossible concept. Barnes [...]