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• Jones makes quick bounce-back against Bulls

  30-03-2025 09:37 via mavs.com
  
  CHICAGO – Two days ago, Kai Jones left the Dallas Mavericks’ game against the Orlando Magic with a left hip contusion after playing just seven minutes.
  But 48 hours later at the United Center, Jones shook off that injury and proceeded to fill up the stat sheet as the Mavs eked out a hard-fought 120-119 victory over the Chicago Bulls. In explaining how he was able to bounce back and play Saturday after falling on his backside against the Magic, Jones said:
  “I’ll be quite f
  
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• Harrison: With Davis, Irving, all the Mavericks really need his health

  22-04-2025 00:23 via mavs.com
  
  Nico Harrison couldn’t have been any clearer about the motivation for making the trade for Anthony Davis.
  As he addressed a large media contingent on Monday to wrap up the season and detail what the future looks like, the Mavericks’ general manager said it was a simple matter of getting as much value as possible for superstar of Luka Doncic’s magnitude.
  “If you don’t value AD as an all-NBA player and all-defensive player, then you’re not going to like the trad
  
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• Harrison: Mavs’ best is yet to come with healthy Davis, Irving

  22-04-2025 00:23 via mavs.com
  
  Nico Harrison couldn’t have been any clearer about the motivation for making the trade for Anthony Davis.
  As he addressed a large media contingent on Monday to wrap up the season and detail what the future looks like, the Mavericks’ general manager said it was a simple matter of getting as much value as possible for superstar of Luka Doncic’s magnitude.
  “If you don’t value AD as an all-NBA player and all-defensive player, then you’re not going to like the trad
  
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• Lively reminds us that some rain must fall to grow a beautiful garden

  20-04-2025 01:12 via mavs.com
  
  One of the best things about Dereck Lively II, apart from his limitless potential, is he still has a boyish, wide-eyed wonder to him.
  Even after a season like the Mavericks just endured.
  That’s why his breakdown of what happened over the past six months – and it’s a long, hard journey for the Mavericks to talk about – was enlightening. Remember, Lively in two years in the NBA has seen some awesome times last season and then this season, which was considerably less than aw
  
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• Mavs reflect on season, expect to be better with Irving’s return

  20-04-2025 00:54 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – Thanks in large part to a bushel of injuries that severely affected their seeding in the Western Conference, this was a very trying season for the Dallas Mavericks.
  One year removed from advancing to last season’s NBA Finals, the Mavs posted a 39-43 record in the regular season, which ended Friday with a 120-106 defeat at the hands of the Memphis Grizzlies in a Western Conference tournament play-in game.
  Coach Jason Kidd described this season as an, “incredible season
  
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• Slow start, too many turnovers did in Mavs

  19-04-2025 22:18 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – Over and over again, members of the Dallas Mavericks kept saying Memphis kept speeding them up during the Grizzlies’ 120-106 win over the Mavs in a Western Conference tournament play-in game on Friday night at FedEx Forum.
  It was a recurring theme coming from the Mavs, whose season ended prematurely during that unfortunate loss to the Grizzlies.
  “They just sped us up and turned us over,” guard Klay Thompson said. “We dug ourselves too big of a hole.
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• Mavs end season with 120-106 loss to Grizzlies

  19-04-2025 07:59 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – Jaren Jackson Jr., Desmond Bane and Ja Morant combined for 68 points in leading the Memphis Grizzlies to a 120-106 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Friday night at FedEx Forum in a Western Conference play-in tournament game.
  The loss ended the season for the Mavs, who were trying to become the NBA’s first No. 10 seed to advance to the playoffs since the play-in tournament was implemented in 2021.
  Jackson finished with 24 points and seven rebounds, Bane collected 22 poin
  
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• Mavs’ faithful stick with team to the bitter end

  19-04-2025 07:58 via mavs.com
  
  THE COLONY – While attending two watching parties for what turned out to be the final Mavericks’ game of the season, one thing became clear.
  They weren’t much different, other than the “official” gathering had a lot more bells and whistles.
  The Mavericks may have an image problem among some people, but you’d never know it from the fans who showed up to watch at COSM, where the Mavericks brought entertainers and door prizes to stoke the fans.
  It was less fanfar
  
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• Mavs play win or go home game against Grizzlies

  18-04-2025 11:44 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – With Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving running the show, the Dallas Mavericks were mainly a spectacular guard-oriented show that had fans on pins and needles because of the extraordinary things they could do on the basketball court.
  But with Dončić now playing for the Los Angeles Lakers and Irving out for the season following surgery to repair his torn left anterior cruciate ligament, the Mavs have turned to a potent front line headed by Anthony Davis to punish opp
  
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• It’s win or go home (again) for Mavs against Grizzlies

  18-04-2025 11:44 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – With Luka Dončić and Kyrie Irving running the show, the Dallas Mavericks were mainly a spectacular guard-oriented show that had fans on pins and needles because of the extraordinary things they could do on the basketball court.
  But with Dončić now playing for the Los Angeles Lakers and Irving out for the season following surgery to repair his torn left anterior cruciate ligament, the Mavs have turned to a potent front line headed by Anthony Davis to punish opp
  
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• Takeaway: Williams responded to injury with solid game against Kings

  18-04-2025 01:52 via mavs.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — Dallas Maverick point guard Brandon Williams had this simple way of letting coach Jason Kidd know he was going to be able to play in Wednesday’s play-in tournament against the Sacramento Kings.
  “He text me (Wednesday) and said there was no way that he was going to miss this game,” Kidd said. “It was good to get that text (Wednesday) afternoon after shootaround.”
  It was good, because for the Mavs, Williams was one of the best players on the court.
  
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• Takeaway: Williams rebounded from injury to torment Kings

  18-04-2025 01:52 via mavs.com
  
  SACRAMENTO — Dallas Maverick point guard Brandon Williams had this simple way of letting coach Jason Kidd know he was going to be able to play in Wednesday’s play-in tournament against the Sacramento Kings.
  “He texted me (Wednesday) and said there was no way that he was going to miss this game,” Kidd said. “It was good to get that text after shootaround.”
  It was good, because for the Mavs, Williams was one of the best players on the court. He certainly was one
  
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• Health, confidence, momentum now are Mavericks’ allies

  17-04-2025 22:20 via mavs.com
  
  It was in the visitors’ dressing room at the Intuit Dome after the 69th game of the regular season when Naji Marshall emphatically said there was nothing wrong with having to win a play-in game on the road.
  “Hell, no,” he said when asked if it made a difference where the Mavericks played. “If we’re healthy, it won’t (matter).”
  We can only hope Marshall’s telepathic skills are repeatable.
  The Mavericks smacked Sacramento late Wednesday night and now
  
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• Exactly a year to the day, this time Thompson was terrific at Golden 1 Center

  17-04-2025 09:23 via mavs.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – The last time Klay Thompson played a play-in game in Golden 1 Center, he was a member of the Golden State Warriors. That was a year ago to the date. And it was a game Thompson would rather forget.
  But as the calendar turned 365 days later, Thompson put that dreadful night in his rear view mirror and quickly turned into one of the shining stars on Wednesday night as the Dallas Mavericks ended Sacramento’s season with a 120-106 triumph over the Kings in a Western Conferenc
  
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• Exactly a year later, Thompson was terrific this time at Sacramento

  17-04-2025 09:23 via mavs.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – The last time Klay Thompson had a play-in game at Golden 1 Center, he was a member of the Golden State Warriors. That was a year ago to the day. And it was a game Thompson would rather forget.
  But as the calendar turned 365 days later, Thompson put that dreadful night in his rear-view mirror and quickly turned into one of the shining stars on Wednesday night as the Dallas Mavericks ended Sacramento’s season with a 120-106 triumph over the Kings in a Western Conference pl
  
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• Mavs used dominant performance to oust Kings, 120-106

  17-04-2025 06:38 via mavs.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – It’ll be next season at the earliest before the Sacramento Kings will get a chance to light the beam again. That’s because the Dallas Mavericks came to Golden 1 Center and dominated the Kings in a Western Conference play-in tournament game, 120-106, on Wednesday night.
  The win enabled the Mavs to advance to play on the road at the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday at 8:30 p.m. in a play-in game to determine which team will secure the conference’s No. 8 seed. The Ma
  
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• Mavs use dominant performance to oust Kings, 120-106

  17-04-2025 06:38 via mavs.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – Not many so-called experts thought the Dallas Mavericks could do what they did to the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night. Then again, not many know that the trials and tribulations of this season have brought out the true character of the Mavs and made them a team that can’t be counted out.
  With Anthony Davis and the front line protecting the rim, and Klay Thompson knocking down haymakers in the backcourt, the Mavs pounded the Kings, 120-106, in a Western Conference pla
  
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• With a priority on transparency, Harrison, Welts tackle tough questions

  16-04-2025 03:37 via mavs.com
  
  If he had a mulligan, Nico Harrison would stick with his first shot.
  Of course the Mavericks’ general manager and president of basketball operations has heard the catcalls, the chants, howls from a relatively small percentage of Mavericks’ fans that still harbor traitorous feelings toward Harrison for the trading of Luka Doncic.
  Doesn’t matter.
  The overriding problem with playing hard-nosed defense for Luka remains the single most compelling reason that the Mavericks traded him
  
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• Mavs hit the road to face Kings in play-in game

  16-04-2025 01:37 via mavs.com
  
  SACRAMENTO – Except for point guard Kyrie Irving, the Dallas Mavericks are anticipating having all of their regular rotation players available when they face the Sacramento Kings in a Western Conference play-in game on Wednesday at 9 p.m.
  And that’s saying a mouth full, because this will be the first time in four games against the Kings this season that the Mavs will have their regular rotation players – Irving notwithstanding. Although the Mavs went 0-3 against Sacramento this
  
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• Mavericks hope to get physical to extend their season

  15-04-2025 21:44 via mavs.com
  
  The question opened the door for coach Jason Kidd to lift the curtain a little on what’s been going on with his basketball team for the last two months.
  It’s been a physical battle, of course, with injuries upon injuries.
  But what about the mental aspect of tuning out the noise created by the Luka Doncic trade and avoiding any woe-is-us thinking when the players were dropping fast?
  “We’re lucky that the season isn’t over,” Kidd said. “We have an opportun
  
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• Takeaways from loss to Grizzlies: Transition defense and rebounding must be better

  15-04-2025 00:13 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – With four starters sitting out, the Dallas Mavericks were mere shells of their former selves during Sunday’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies.
  With no Dereck Lively II, Anthony Davis, P. J. Washington or Klay Thompson to help jump-start the offense and defense, the Mavs struggled mightily in losing to the Grizzlies, 132-97, at FedEx Forum. Meanwhile, Memphis outscored the Mavs in fast break points (36-14), in second-chance points (17-16), in points in the paint (68-62), a
  
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• One goal reached, a bigger one remains for Klay Thompson

  14-04-2025 22:37 via mavs.com
  
  P.J. Washington could have been speaking for the entire Mavericks’ organization on Monday.
  “I’ve never been a part of a season like this,” he said. “(All you can do is) stay positive about it. We’re here in postseason play and a lot of teams don’t even get this opportunity. I tell everybody to make the most of it and see how far we can go. Obviously, we feel like we can make the playoffs and that’s the goal.”
  It truly has been “one of t
  
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• With the regular season over, Mavs turn attention to Kings

  14-04-2025 03:13 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – Now that the regular season has come to a close, the Dallas Mavericks have turned their undivided attention to their first trip to the NBA’s play-in tournament.
  The Mavs will face the Kings in Sacramento on Wednesday at 9 p.m. with the winner moving on to play the loser of Tuesday’s game between the Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies. The season will abruptly end for the Mavs-Kings loser.
  The Kings swept the Mavs, 3-0, this season. But the Mavs are confident
  
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• With regular season over, Mavs turn attention to Kings

  14-04-2025 03:13 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – Now that the regular season has come to a close, the Dallas Mavericks can turn their undivided attention to their first trip to the NBA’s play-in tournament.
  The Mavs will face the Kings in Sacramento on Wednesday at 9 p.m. with the winner moving on to play the loser of Tuesday’s game between the Golden State Warriors and Memphis Grizzlies. The season will end for the Mavs-Kings loser.
  The Kings swept the Mavs, 3-0, this season. But the Mavs are confident they can get
  
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• Williams injured as Mavs lose regular season finale to Grizzlies, 132-97

  14-04-2025 00:36 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS – The Memphis Grizzlies had four players score as least 22 points and they went on to post a 132-97 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday afternoon at FedEx Forum.
  With the loss, the Mavericks finished the regular season with a 39-43 record and also clinched the No. 10 seed in the Western Conference. That means the Mavs will play on the road against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night in the play-in tournament.
  The winner of that game will play the loser of the Golden Sta
  
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• Williams injured as Mavs lose regular-season finale to Grizzlies

  14-04-2025 00:36 via mavs.com
  MEMPHIS – The one thing Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd wanted not to happen Sunday against the Memphis Grizzlies, actually happened.
  Before losing to the Grizzlies at FedEx Forum, 132-97, Kidd went on and on about his desire to make sure the Mavs got out of this game without any injuries. Well, the injury bug unfortunately reared its ugly head again as point guard Brandon Williams left the game for good in the first half with a left oblique strain.
  Williams, who just signed a two-year c
  
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• Brandon Williams FINALLY has a contract — and some financial security

  13-04-2025 00:10 via mavs.com
  
  MEMPHIS — Since he joined the NBA in 2021 as an undrafted rookie out of Arizona, point guard Brandon Williams has been paying his bills by signing a bunch of 10-day and two-way contracts. In other words, he’s been playing for peanuts — by NBA standards.
  But that all came to an abrupt end on Thursday when the Dallas Mavericks converted Williams’ two-way contract into a standard two-year contract. So, after years of waiting to receive some financial security, obviously what
  
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• Mavericks feeling upbeat, for the health of it

  12-04-2025 20:06 via mavs.com
  
  The Mavericks certainly would like to be sitting among the top six teams of the Western Conference, assured of a playoff berth.
  It’s something that looked plausible when they were 31-26 after winning their first game after the All-Star break.
  Just 10 days later, Kyrie Irving went down with a season-ending knee injury and the Mavericks have gone 8-16 since.
  Hello, play-in tournament, an instrument for filling the seventh and eighth playoff seeds in each conference. Originally, it was dreame
  
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• McKinney’s Ja’Kobe Walter, enjoyed ‘outstanding’ season with Raptors

  12-04-2025 05:45 via mavs.com
  
  Ja’Kobe Walter was probably destined to be in the NBA. After all, his parents named him after Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant — arguably the top two players of all-time.
  But Walter, who is a rookie with the Toronto Raptors, didn’t know about his connection to Jordan and Bryant until he was a teenager and playing basketball for McKinney High School.
  “They told me that my junior year of high school, so I didn’t really have any pressure thinking about it,” Walter
  
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• McKinney High-ex, Ja’Kobe Walter, enjoyed “outstanding” season with Raptors

  12-04-2025 05:45 via mavs.com
  
  Ja’Kobe Walter was probably destined to be in the NBA. After all, his parents named him after Michael Jordan AND Kobe Bryant — arguably the top two greatest players of all-time.
  But Walter, who is a rookie with the Toronto Raptors, didn’t know about his connection to Jordan and Bryant until he was a teenager and playing basketball for McKinney High School.
  “They told me that my junior year of high school, so I didn’t really have any pressure thinking about it,&rdquo
  
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