Rick Carlisle

According to ESPN, Dennis Smith Jr. should be ready to suit up for the Mavericks’ Tuesday home game against the Clippers. The “official” story is that Smith has missed the past five games due to a back injury and illness, but his absence coincided with rumors that the team was looking to trade him. Smith [...]

Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle got ejected in the third quarter win over the Atlanta Hawks. Carlisle was frustrated over the lack of foul calls. Carlisle complained several times about the no calls on Harrison Barnes’ drives and eventually stepped onto the court to argue the case with the referee as the official ran down the [...]

Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle wants you to know he has no interest in becoming the next head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks. Speaking on 105.7FM The Fan earlier this week, the Racine Journal Times‘ Gery Woelfel loosely linked Carlisle to Milwaukee’s ongoing search for a Jason Kidd/Joe Prunty successor: [tweet https://twitter.com/1057FMTheFan/status/993846460528709632] This report was [...]

This is fine. Nerlens Noel, who turned down a four-year, $70 million offer from the Dallas Mavericks in restricted free agency only to sign his one-year qualifying offer worth $4.2 million, will not get to spend his contract season as the starting center. That job, according to head coach Rick Carlisle, belongs to Dirk Nowitzki. [...]

Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle either has a really high opinion of Jae Crowder, his former player, or he’s absolutely sold on the Boston Celtics. Okay, it’s both. As Carlisle said after the Mavericks’ Monday night loss to the Celtics, per SB Nation’s Tim Cato: [tweet https://twitter.com/tim_cato/status/831353348590862341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] These words are flattering when you realize [...]

Harrison Barnes has seen his scoring production almost double with increased opportunities and responsibility as the go-to player for the Dallas Mavericks. He has improved his shooting percentage while shooting twice as many shots per game and has had twice as many “clutch” points (points in the last five minutes of a game when the [...]

Like you needed more evidence Dallas Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle is simply the best. On the heels of the Mavericks’ Monday night win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, which came one night after they beat the San Antonio Spurs, Carlisle had this to say of his suddenly plucky group, per SB Nation’s Tim Cato: [tweet [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Rick Carlisle, head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, is ready for owner Mark Cuban to break open the piggy bank on Dirk Nowitzki’s behalf. The 37-year-old superhuman has made just over $16 million through each of the last two seasons, accepting a pay cut of epic proportions so that the Mavericks could afford to pay [...]