Monta Ellis

There was once a time when Monta Ellis was seen as being one of the featured options of an NBA offense and averaged 25.5 points per game for the Warriors in the 2009-10 season. He found himself out of the league by the age of 31 last season, unable to catch on with a team [...]

The Indiana Pacers may be ready to move one of their key pieces. For all you hope-drunk folks out there, it’s not Paul George. It’s Monta Ellis, per Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler: Not sure there is much the Pacers have to offer without ripping up the core, which I do not see them doing. I [...]

Paul George doesn’t want to play power forward. The Indiana Pacers, it seems, do not care. Head coach Frank Vogel is, per the Indianapolis Star‘s Candace Buckner, planning on trotting out a starting lineup comprising George Hill, Monta Ellis, C.J. Miles, George and Ian Mahinmi when the regular season tips off. That keeps in theme [...]

The Dallas Mavericks don’t get along with guards. At least that’s how it seems these days. They sent Rajon Rondo packing midway through their first-round playoff series with the Houston Rockets, and now they’re lower than low on Monta Ellis, who, relative to his time with the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks, has played [...]

The Mavericks stayed alive in the series on Sunday night’s game four against the Rockets. It was all thanks to this man, Monta Ellis, who finished with a game-high of 31 points. He combined that with 6 rebounds and 3 assists to help the Mavericks live to fight another day and bring back the series [...]

Rajon Rondo will hit unrestricted free agency this summer, at which point he’ll be paid handsomely, signing a contract that could be worth upwards of $100 million. And he doesn’t care. Not right now at least. Rumors pertaining to Rondo’s free agency abound. Though the Dallas Mavericks can offer him more money than any other [...]

Welcome to Bizarro World. Population: Dallas Mavericks. Mark Cuban’s crew has been in something of a tailspin since the Rajon Rondo trade in December. They’re still in the hunt for a top-three Western Conference playoff seed, but their offense is no longer historical, and they’re now one of the West’s few pretender candidates. Plenty of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

With their four-game winning streak on the line and Dirk Nowitzki sitting out—the Dallas Mavericks managed to pull out a 107-105 victory against the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night, to cap off their road trip with a bang. Both teams were mostly neck-and-neck throughout the game, as none of them were willing to let this [...]