Category: Rick Carlisle
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
Since the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA Championship two seasons ago, things have been anything but smooth in Big D. The Mavs exited the playoffs in the first round last year and this year they will be lucky to even get into the postseason as they sit five games out ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2012
For Elton Brand it wasn't easy being an amnesty casualty out of Philadelphia, but he found a home in Dallas this offseason where he believed he could make it work. So far the power forward is struggling to maintain consistency. The Mavs sit at 5-4 heading into Thursday night's action. ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Tonight is opening night in the NBA. It's the time when every team thinks they have a chance. Everyone thinks they are playoff caliber before the opening tip. Some teams get a dose of reality quickly. For the Dallas Mavericks, it's been an interesting last two seasons. After winning the ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2012
It was just two seasons ago when the Dallas Mavericks were celebrating an NBA Championship. Now, if you take a look at their roster, you will notice that many of the players that helped bring the Larry O’Brien Trophy to Big D are gone. After an organizational decision to not ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
No matter what happens from here on out in the NBA playoffs, one thing that’s clear is that there will be a new NBA Champion. The Dallas Mavericks were swept out of the first round by the Oklahoma City Thunder and have been forced to watch the playoffs from home. ...
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Monday, February 27th, 2012
The NBA season has reached the halfway point, and while it has been tough road for a lot of teams with the condensed schedule, the defending NBA Champs are right in the thick of things in the Western Conference. Despite changing the roster significantly this offseason and going through some ...
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
The concerns with the Dallas Mavericks came about instantly. The defending NBA champions opened up the season with three consecutive losses. They've won four of six since then, but still have a losing record and head-scratching blowouts like the one against San Antonio last week don't help.
Now they enter a ...
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Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Larry Bird is far from a media recluse. You can't get away with that as the President of an NBA franchise. But he's still fairly judicious about which media appearances he agrees to. That includes radio spots, which I'm sure he gets an avalanche of requests each week. But on ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
The Dallas Mavericks proved a lot of people wrong again. The Mavs took their talents to South Beach and left the other night with the NBA Championship. They were tougher, they played smarter, they played with more poise, and throughout the entire series they had big shots in critical moments ...
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Most of the talk surrounding the Dallas Mavericks' fourth-quarter comeback in Game 4 is revolving around Dirk Nowitzki's performance despite being sick. And rightfully so. However, the performance of Tyson Chandler cannot go unnoticed and it has to be a welcome sign for a Mavs team that needs him badly ...
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