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• Kidd and staff changed strategies, but not commitment to winning

  07-04-2025 20:41 via mavs.com
  
  Anthony Davis had just scored seven points in the first five minutes against the Los Angeles Clippers and was clearly in a nice comfort zone.
  The Clippers couldn’t slow him down early in the game. It was a chance for the Mavericks to milk a hot hand.
  And then, Davis walked to the sideline – his minutes restriction and the medical staff’s desire to avoid playing the superstar big man for long stretches without a break dictating the move.
  It’s been a familiar scene for too
  
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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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• Davis’ triple-double powers Mavericks’ blowout win over Raptors

  12-04-2025 04:41 via mavs.com
  
  A bit of normalcy returned on Friday night at American Airlines Center.
  Gone were the one-timers, those overflow media members who crammed into the building for Luka Doncic’s Wednesday return to Dallas. And the Los Angeles Lakers fans, too.
  Replacing them was a business-as-usual approach from the Mavericks, who are trying to put together an identity on the fly and couldn’t have asked for a better confidence builder than the Toronto Raptors.
  With Anthony Davis rolling up a triple-doub
  
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• Davis, Lively lead Mavericks’ blowout win over Raptors

  12-04-2025 04:41 via mavs.com
  
  A bit of normalcy returned on Friday night at American Airlines Center.
  Gone were the one-timers, those overflow media members who crammed into the building for Luka Doncic’s Wednesday return to Dallas. And the Los Angeles Lakers fans, too.
  Replacing them was a business-as-usual approach from the Mavericks, who are trying to put together an identity on the fly and couldn’t have asked for a better confidence builder than the Toronto Raptors.
  With Anthony Davis rolling up a triple-doub
  
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• Hope is a good thing; Mavericks still have it with two games left

  11-04-2025 01:30 via mavs.com
  
  For the first time in franchise history, the Mavericks will experience the play-in tournament.
  What that means is they weren’t good enough in the regular season to prove they are playoff worthy. But they weren’t bad enough to be serious contenders in the Cooper Flagg Sweepstakes.
  Somewhere in between. That’s where the Mavericks are.
  “Hope is still in that locker room,” coach Jason Kidd said of these Mavericks as they had into the final home regular season game Frida
  
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• Takeaway: Naji Marshall knew Dončić was going to shed some tears

  10-04-2025 20:49 via mavs.com
  
  The prodigal son returned “home” Wednesday night and promptly did his thing.
  Los Angeles Lakers point guard Luka Dončić started Wednesday off by crying when a tribute video for him was shown on the American Airlines Center Jumbotron. By the time the night was over, Dončić had poured in 45 points, collected eight rebounds, dispensed six assists and picked up four steals as the Lakers beat the Dallas Mavericks, 112-97.
  Afterwards, everyone, including Mavs forward Na
  
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• Teary-eyed Doncic turns ‘super-human’ after emotional tribute video

  10-04-2025 06:10 via mavs.com
  
  A sentimental journey through Luka Doncic’s six-plus seasons with the Mavericks did exactly what it was intended to do on Wednesday night.
  There was celebration, healing, maybe a little closure and most certainly a tribute that was befitting of the occasion.
  The tribute video played before the superstar was announced as the last starter in the Los Angeles Lakers’ lineup and touched on so many moments that made Doncic such a fan favorite. It was well done and had Luka on the verge of
  
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• Dončić scores 45 points, leads Lakers to 112-97 victory over Mavs

  10-04-2025 05:25 via mavs.com
  
  Luka Dončić returned to American Airlines Center on Wednesday for the first time since the Dallas Mavericks traded him to the Los Angeles Lakers on Feb. 2, and he put on an amazing show for the sellout crowd of 20,841.
  After crying during a pre-game tribute for him that was shown on the overhead Jumbotron, Dončić proceeded to put on a performance for the ages in leading the Lakers to an emotional 112-97 win over the Mavs. Dončić finished his epic night with 45 point
  
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• Kidd: Mavs fans have the right and should cheer for Dončić

  09-04-2025 05:01 via mavs.com
  
  In his own way of simply keeping it real, Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd believe Mavs fans deserve the right to pay homage and show their appreciation for Luka Dončić when he and the Los Angeles Lakers visit American Airlines Center for a game on Wednesday night.
  Dončić played for the Mavs from 2018 until they traded him, Markieff Morris and Maxi Kleber to the Lakers on Feb. 2 for Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round draft pick. Before he was shipped to the W
  
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• Mavericks ‘fighting for something’ as they search for momentum

  07-04-2025 02:38 via mavs.com
  
  As he stood at his locker in the visitors’ dressing room at the fancy Intuit Dome, which might be AI generated from the ground up given the crazy gizmos and electronics it has, Naji Marshall didn’t waste two seconds thinking about where the Mavericks will have their first game in the SoFi play-in tournament.
  “Doesn’t matter,” the Mavericks’ forward said. “Hell, no. Just get there.”
  With the Mavericks trying to create a new identity in the span of,
  
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• Despite Davis’ return, Mavericks bounced by Clippers again

  06-04-2025 06:52 via mavs.com
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The Mavericks arrived in Los Angeles full of hope, riding a stretch of five wins in seven games and talking playoffs.
  The LA Clippers put those talks on hold, at least for the moment.
  While Anthony Davis returned to the court and kept the Mavericks in the game for a half, the Clippers blew open the game in the third quarter and rolled to a 135-104 victory Saturday night at the Intuit Dome.
  This after the Clips had won by 23 points on Friday.
  The Mavericks slid to 38-41
  
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• Kidd heading back to Hall of Fame

  06-04-2025 06:01 via mavs.com
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Jason Kidd is heading to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for the second time.
  Already enshrined in Springfield, Mass., for his legendary career that landed him in the top three on the all-time assists and steals lists, Kidd on Saturday joined the other members of the 2008 U.S. men’s Olympic team in the hall of fame’s 2025 class.
  Widely known as “The Redeem Team” after the Americans were upset in the 2004 Olympics, losing three times
  
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• Kidd going into Hall of Fame again

  06-04-2025 06:01 via mavs.com
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Jason Kidd is heading to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for the second time.
  Already enshrined in Springfield, Mass., for his legendary career that landed him in the top three on the all-time assists and steals lists, Kidd on Saturday joined the other members of the 2008 U.S. men’s Olympic team in the hall of fame’s 2025 class.
  Widely known as “The Redeem Team” after the Americans were upset in the 2004 Olympics, losing three times
  
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• Run it back: Mavericks hope big men return for rematch with Clippers

  05-04-2025 13:00 via mavs.com
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Other than getting a key player or two back, there’s a couple of easy fixes for the Mavericks in their rematch with the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday night.
  Make more shots, which won’t be hard considering they didn’t make any three-pointers in the first half of Friday’s 23-point loss to the Clippers.
  And make the LA defense work a little harder.
  That, too, shouldn’t be hard if the Mavericks get a couple of key players back, which looks
  
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• Mavericks reminded that Leonard is still dangerous

  05-04-2025 09:19 via mavs.com
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Kawhi Leonard may never be the same player he was when he was a two-time MVP of the NBA Finals as he helped San Antonio (2014) and Toronto (2019) win championships.
  But he hasn’t been bad for the Los Angeles Clippers this season, even in a limited capacity.
  And he certainly reminded the Mavericks on Friday that there still is plenty left in Leonard’s arsenal.
  The veteran forward had 20 points and didn’t have to play in the last 10 minutes of the game w
  
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• With Davis out, Mavericks muzzled by Clippers

  05-04-2025 06:46 via mavs.com
  
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The Maverick’s primary concern no longer is making the SoFi Play-In Tournament. With Phoenix’s free-fall, staying in the top 10 in the Western Conference is a virtual lock for the Mavericks.
  But getting a home game to start the tournament? That became less certain on Friday night.
  The Mavericks suffered a 114-91 setback to the Los Angeles Clippers at the glitzy Intuit Dome. Meanwhile, the Sacramento Kings dusted the Charlotte Hornets, 125-102, and they now h
  
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• DALLAS MAVERICKS SAY THANK YOU TO SEASON TICKET MEMBERS BY PROVIDING PLAY-IN GAME TICKETS FOR ALL ACCOUNTS

  05-04-2025 04:31 via mavs.com
  
  APRIL 4, 2025 (DALLAS) – The Dallas Mavericks announced an additional benefit to thank their loyal Club Maverick Members (CMMs) by providing Play-In Tournament tickets for all accounts this season. CMMs will receive tickets to the Play-In Tournament game hosted at American Airlines Center if the Mavs remain ninth in the Western Conference standings, ensuring that the team’s most dedicated fans will be present to create an electric home-court advantage during this crucial po
  
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• Mavs Foundation Grants Boost Community Health in North Texas

  04-04-2025 20:33 via mavs.com
  
  With World Health Day approaching on April 7, the importance of accessible, high-quality healthcare takes center stage.
  For many North Texans, however, accessing medical care comes with significant barriers, particularly for uninsured individuals or those living in chronically underserved neighborhoods.
  The Dallas Mavericks and Mavs Foundation are committed to bridging these gaps through philanthropic initiatives, including the Mavs Foundation grant program. This season, the Mavs Foundation awar
  
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