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DALLAS - Mike James has every reason to believe that the Dallas Mavericks are a playoff-caliber team. After all, they are 22-14 since the 37-year-old journeyman guard joined the Mavs on a 10-day deal in January. They are 9-3 in games that James ha...

DALLAS - There's no nice way to put it: The Mavericks have been miserable against the West's best. Dallas has lost 13 of 14 games against the conference's top five teams, including 0-11 against the top four seeds. Six of those losses came by doubl...

As far as Rick Carlisle is concerned, Dirk Nowitzki had every right to second-guess the last-seconds play call in San Antonio. In fact, Carlisle considers it well within Nowitzki's right to express any opinion that crosses the future Hall of Fame ...

SAN ANTONIO - Dirk Nowitzki didn't like the play call with the game on the line Thursday night at the AT&T Center. That had nothing do with Nowitzki not touching the ball. Nowitzki's issue with the pick-and-roll play was that the spacing didn't al...

SAN ANTONIO -- Hey, this was a heck of a lot better than the Mavericks' last trip to the AT&T Center. It just wasn't good enough for a Dallas team desperate for wins. At least the Mavs put up a fight in this meeting against the San Antonio ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Tim Duncan was too dominant. The Dallas Mavericks' stars in Duncan's age range couldn't match him. Duncan, who was well-rested after staying home for the San Antonio Spurs' Tuesday trip to Minnesota, had a vintage performance with 2...

SAN ANTONIO - Rick Carlisle claims he hasn't seen the play that caused Kobe Bryant's severe ankle injury, perhaps opening a window for the Mavericks to make the playoffs. That's Carlisle's story and he's sticking with it. "I didn't see the play...

SAN ANTONIO - Mavericks big man Chris Kaman is disgruntled but doesn't want to be a distraction. With all due respect to coach Rick Carlisle, Kaman is rather perturbed about being benched a little more than two minutes into Tuesday's win in Milwau...

SAN ANTONIO - Chris Wright was being modest when he called himself a "good story." Wright's fight to make the NBA despite being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a year ago is a great story. That story, however, has nothing to do with the Maverick...

SAN ANTONIO -- Can we be completely honest? OK, good. It took great restraint not to roll our eyes when Rick Carlisle went on and on about his enthusiasm for this team the day after the Dallas Mavericks got routed on the road by the Houston Rocke...

Point guard Chris Wright joins Dallas Mavericks as he battles multiple sclerosis.

Dallas Mavericks forward Shawn Marion has been ruled out of Thursday's game against the San Antonio Spurs and will be re-evaluated Friday morning by team doctor T.O. Souryal.

HOUSTON -- If the Dallas Mavericks manage to sweep the home-and-home series with the Houston Rockets over the next four days, we can continue entertaining their slim hopes of making the playoffs. The reality, however, is that Dallas' 12-year posts...

DALLAS -- The worst-case scenario for these Mavericks might be sneaking into the playoffs and drawing the top-seeded San Antonio Spurs. By all indications, that series might be just as brief as last season's sweep at the hands of the Mavs' other I...

How it happened: The Spurs put on a pretty good show for Gregg Popovich and Tim Duncan, assuming those two watched from their homes in San Antonio. Tony Parker and San Antonio's role players took care of business in Dallas while the Spurs' star bi...

DALLAS -- The Mavericks will return from a four-day break to face a San Antonio team that will be far from full strength. The Spurs announced that power forward Tim Duncan and coach Gregg Popovich did not make the trip to Dallas and won't partici...