For quite some time, NBA commissioner Adam Silver has been in pursuit of a solution to the league’s recent ‘load management’ problem. Whether it be resting players during an exhaustive stretch of games, or even resting players toward the end of the season to increase draft lottery odds – teams around the league have normalized resting players when healthy. In the …
Less than a week ago, tragedy struck the Serbian capital of Belgrade as an elementary school was attacked by a teenage shooter. The thirteen-year-old suspect killed eight fellow classmates and a school guard while leaving at least 14 injured. According to police, the perpetrator had planned the attack during the weeks to possibly months leading up, in which he had …
Shortly after the team’s conference finals elimination a year ago, it was team governor Mark Cuban who expressed a great deal of confidence in the potential re-signing of free agent guard Jalen Brunson. Cuban stated, “We can pay him more than anyone,” After Brunson’s standout playoff performance, why wouldn’t the Mavericks pay him? There has been so much speculation on …
After reaching the Western Conference Finals in 2022, the Mavericks ended the 2022-23 season disappointingly. Even with the departure of Jalen Brunson, the expectation was for Dinwiddie to take on an additional workload and replicate the success from a season ago. No doubt, there were both highs and lows throughout the year – as is typically the case for any …
The Dallas Mavericks’ 2022-23 season has officially come to a close. The organization ultimately opted to ‘tank’ for the final two games of the season with hopes of retaining their 2023 1st-round draft pick (top-10 protected). As a result, the NBA is currently conducting an investigation on the Dallas Mavericks. The decision to rest players, while the door had not …
With just 6 games on the schedule, Dallas remains on the outside looking in. Sitting at the 11th seed, the Mavs are just a half game back from the Thunder/Lakers. Dallas owns the tiebreaker over the Lakers, but not Oklahoma City. Heading into this final stretch of games, you can’t help but question how motivated Dallas would be, or should …
After three straight games absent by both Kyrie Irving (right foot soreness) and Luka Doncic (left thigh strain), Irving’s return to the lineup was much anticipated. During this three game stretch, an overtime battle with a fifty-loss Spurs team was too close for comfort. Dallas found themselves in overtime play after a miscue by Maxi Kleber that allowed San Antonio …
In just two games played together, the narratives have already quickly surrounded the duo of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. Can they close out games together? Who should get the last shot? These questions rapidly grew louder after Irving’s Maverick home debut. In a game that saw Minnesota with a 26-point lead in the third quarter, it’s rather impressive that …
On Thursday, December 15th the team announced that F Maxi Kleber will be out indefinitely. Kleber was diagnosed with a torn hamstring that will sideline him for a minimum of 6-8 weeks. This is the same injury that Bucks’ F Khris Middleton suffered in 2016, which kept him off the floor for 6 months. Kleber’s injury creates a significant hole …
With two games remaining in the season, the Mavericks currently sit at 50-30 and 4th in the Western Conference. This is their first 50-win season since the 2014-15 season, a year that saw a blockbuster trade to bring in none other than Dwight Powell (and some other guard from Boston). I do, however, believe that without COVID interrupting a hot 2020 …
