Dallas Mavericks News and Rumors
Carlisle signs new four-year deal with MavsJeff Caplan, ESPN.com Rick Carlisle has signed a new contract with the Mavericks that will keep him in charge for a fifth season and beyond. |
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Don Nelson Finally Will Graduate From College This WeekendMay 11 (6 days ago)
Jack Dickey, deadspin.com You know what they say. All these dumb NBA players go to college to play basketball, not to learn; it's a farce. No one gets a degree. Things used to be much better in the 1960s before John Calipari and all his fancy sneakers came to town. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Oh, we want to put an asterisk by this so, so bad. But damn, Chris Paul is just too, too good. We can forget that CP and Blake Griffin will probably wake up today with whiplash from all of their flopping and flailing. Paul dropped eight overtime points,… |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com On Saturday night, the Oklahoma City Thunder finished off their sweep of the Dallas Mavericks, ending one of the least impressive title defenses in NBA history. Without defensive linchpin Tyson Chandler and important perimeter contributors such as J.J. … |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com It's a bummer to be drummed out in the opening round of the playoffs. But for players still stinging from a first-round exit, the promise of at least getting some extra cash because your team made the postseason, and is thus eligible to grab a share of … |
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Sean Sweeney, dimemag.com If you’ve been keyed in on the most disappointing playoff series at all, you’d know that before the Knicks dramatically eluded elimination yesterday against Miami, Carmelo Anthony owned the prestigious title of having the worst playoff record of any p… |
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The Oklahoma City Thunder started the fourth quarter of their series-clinching Game 4 against the Dallas Mavericks trailing by 13 points. With Russell... |
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The Dallas Mavericks never seemed as though they were really defending an NBA title. It certainly wasn't the same team that raised the trophy a year ago. |
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Jeff Caplan, ESPN.com Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle is at the end of his four-year contract, but president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson assured Sunday that the franchise's lone championship coach isn't getting away. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Thank you James Harden. With Dallas in danger of extending the inevitable, – OKC in the second round – the super sub stepped up and destroyed the defending champs down the stretch. Harden finished with 29 points in the Thunder’s six-point win to com… |
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Jeff Caplan and Tim MacMahon, ESPN.com Even with his defending NBA championship team on the verge of first-round elimination, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had no regrets about his post-lockout decision not to retain the core of last season's team. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Jason Terry may have broken every broom in the house, but when Game 4 was on the line, James Harden broke the Dallas Mavericks. Time and again in the final 12 minutes, Oklahoma City Thunder head coach Scott Brooks turned to Harden, his team's most gifte… |
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Marc Stein, ESPN.com The Thunder swept away the champs, leaving the Mavs searching for answers |
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Jeff Caplan, ESPN.com Oklahoma City Thunder starting center Kendrick Perkins will miss the remainder of Game 4 against the Dallas Mavericks Saturday after leaving in the first quarter with a right hip strain. |
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Patrick Cassidy, dimemag.com Why are we dropping Part III of the Tyson Chandler video series on a Saturday morning? Because the Caron Butler-less Clippers play tonight. Listen to Chandler talk about how in many ways, Caron can mean just as much to a team in his absence than he can … |
