I grew up amidst the basketball eras of Magic, Bird, and Jordan, when finding a great European player in the NBA was about as rare as the L.A. Clippers making a good draft selection or the playoffs for that matter. I grew up in a time where the Lakers Vlade Divac was literally considered the [...]
September 24, 2015
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R.S. De France
Opening night is still more than a month away, and already it seems like the Dallas Mavericks are in for a long season. The DeAndre Jordan mishap has come to define their offseason. They had one of the top free agents available, and then, quite suddenly, they didn’t. And that left them to pick up [...]
September 22, 2015
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So much for the first-round series between the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks being an actual competition. After Tuesday night’s 111-99 loss at Toyota Center, the Mavericks now find themselves in a 2-0 series hole, with little hope of extending their NBA playoff push into the second round. Make that no hope. Nothing the Mavericks [...]
April 22, 2015
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In 2013, DeAndre Jordan talked about his need improve and added, “I know that defensively it starts with me down there.” At the time, Jordan averaged 1.4 blocks per game and 0.6 steals. Today, Jordan had taken his defensive game to a new level, blocking 2.4 shots per game and grabbing 0.9 spg. On the [...]
February 12, 2015
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R.S. De France
This season, Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal told USA Today that himself and Wall are, “definitely the best backcourt in the league.” But, after his dismissal from the Warriors, former Head Coach Mark Jackson called Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry the, “greatest shooting backcourt in the history of the game.” Since then, the question of [...]
January 19, 2015
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Lists, R.S. De France
In the Dallas Mavericks’ 107-80 Monday victory over the Charlotte Hornets, their 7-foot center from Germany—Dirk Nowitzki—reached an impressive milestone on being the fourth player in NBA history to tally 27,000 career points with a single team. With exactly 6:07 remaining in the third quarter, Nowitzki hit a jumper to clinch the 27,000 point mark [...]
November 18, 2014
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It’s never too early to speculate on how NBA free agency will unfold. Apparently. Ahead of the Dallas Mavericks’ loss to the Portland Trail Blazers Thursday night, Dirk Nowitzki was asked about LaMarcus Aldridge’s free agency. The context of the conversation is unclear, though one must assume he was asked if Aldridge would be a [...]
November 7, 2014
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After missing the first two games of the preseason, Dallas Maverick’s superstar veteran Dirk Nowitzki finally made his debut and showed to us that he can still play very good basketball. He finished with 16 points, while shooting 7-of-11 from the field under just 18 minutes of playing time in their 106-98 victory over the [...]
October 14, 2014
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Why yes, Mark Cuban does hold (playful) grudges. Speaking on KRLD-FM 105.3 The Fan, the Dallas Mavericks owner admitted that he wanted to best Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in free agency this past summer, per The Dallas Morning News: On if things are personal with the Rockets with Daryl Morey: “Oh, all good [...]
August 28, 2014
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Dirk Nowitzki is speaking for the entire Dallas Mavericks organization when he clears his throat, turns to Carmelo Anthony and says, “Yo, what up?” The New York Knicks superstar is expected to hit free agency this summer, at which point he could leave for greener pastures, roads paved in honey and gold and all that [...]
June 16, 2014
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