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Remember the good times, Mavs fans? Back on March 13, the world was our oyster. The Mavs had won 13 straight, despite crucial players like Jason Terry, Jason Kidd, Caron Butler, Erick Dampier and Brendan Haywood missing games.  We all figured, "hey, this is just super, once we're all healthy, the Mavs are really going to start laying a beatdown on the league." But alas, it wasn't to be.  Now that the Mavs are ...

The NBA is a game of haves and have-nots. Certain teams seem handicapped from the top down, with a cheap and/or stupid owner who hires cheap and/or stupid GMs who hire stupid coaches who draft stupid and/or bad players.  GMs like R.C. Buford (Spurs), Sam Presti (Thunder), Kevin Pritchard (Trailblazers), Daryl Morey (Rockets), and Danny Ainge (Celtics) are universally praised for their ability to find good free agent bargains, draft ...

As the Dallas Mavericks head into the final stretch of the season, there is still much up in the air. Will the Mavs be able to hold onto the second seed? Or can they jump to the first, or fall to third or fourth? Can they match up with the Lakers, Jazz, and Nuggets in the playoffs? Can they maintain the level of intensity that took them to 13 straight wins? All ...

As we enter the last month of the season, things are starting to shape up. The Mavericks and Bucks are among two teams riding high in the last week or so, and teams like the Lakers are stumbling a bit.  The seeding for the playoffs is extremely tight, so each game counts more than ever, and we're starting to see teams that can and can't adapt to injury problems.  Without further ado:   1. ...

Due to some creativity on the trade front, the Dallas Mavericks have an open roster spot. Their two-for-one trade of Kris Humphries and Shawne Williams to the New Jersey Nets created a spot, and then the Josh Howard-Drew Gooden-James Singleton-Quinton Ross for Caron-Butler-Brendan Haywood-DeShawn Stevenson trade gave them a total of 13 players. This allows the Mavericks to pick a role-player or a specialist to come in and help them ...

ItÆs official: the Mavericks won the Jason Kidd trade. The Nets, though they got promising young point guard Deviná Harris, came out on the losing end. Now, if you know me, you know IÆve been saying this pretty much since it went down. I was always in favor of the trade, because I didnÆt think the Mavericks as constructed going into February 2008 could win a championship. But the problem was that ...

Greetings from the Super 8 Motel in Hope, Arkansas, birthplace of the 42nd president of your United States, and my stop on night two of my trip to Dallas for the All-Star game. While driving today, my phone began to blow up with the news of a multi-player deal between the Washington Wizards and the Dallas Mavericks, with Josh Howard as the centerpiece. The goal behind this trade for the Mavericks? Get ...

Well, here we are: 2010. Before this year is over, Dr. Heywood Floyd will go out in search of David Bowman and before long an extra-terrestrial intelligence will finally convince us and the Russians to end the Cold War. At least, that's what happened in this documentary I saw. But for the Dallas Mavericks, 2010 opens with their chance to prove they belong in the league's elite. They entered the year with ...

Wins don't come easy in the NBA these days. So when you've got a chance to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, literally, then you (in this case the Dallas Mavericks) have to take advantage. Take last Friday night's game against the Houston Rockets. Not only did it feature a tooth-jarring collision between Dirk Nowitzki and Carl Landry, bu there was some fishy officiating. There were technicals fouls aplenty for ...

Whether or not the Dallas Mavericks can sign LeBron James this offseason, there are several premium free agents available in the summer of 2010. A team like the Dallas Mavericks, as detailed in the above article, is a prime free agent destination, due to the combination of talent, available salary, and ownership. As long as I've been following the Mavericks, they've had holes in two places: shooting guard and center. And it ...