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Five days into free agency, as the Dallas Mavericks quietly scanned the proceedings after being turned down by Deron Williams, the player movement and big money that flowed around the league certainly didn't suggest that a new collective bargaining a...

With Jason Kidd unexpectedly agreeing to a multiyear deal with the New York Knicks, the Dallas Mavericks have seven players under contract -- officially contracts can't be signed until Wednesday. The Mavs also have three draft picks that will be give...

The Dallas Mavericks have interest in free agent shooting guard Brandon Roy and the feeling is mutual, a source with knowledge of the player's thinking confirmed Saturday. Roy has a list of five finalists, according to a Yahoo report earlier Satur...

The Mavs have exercised their option on Vince Carter's full $3.1 million salary, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed.

Merry Christmas everyone! Who would have figured entering Friday afternoon that we'd come out of Thanksgiving weekend with a tentative labor agreement and an NBA season that is scheduled to start on Dec. 25. The expectation is a 66-game season, me...

Oh, brother. This NBA lockout gag order is ultimately going to cause a mess for somebody. Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle might have innocently stepped in it Thursday while doing a telephone interview on a Portland sports talk radio station. ...

LOS ANGELES -- So what happens if, say, the Dallas Mavericks are playing superbly in tonight's Game 1 and are up, oh, 15 to 18 points with the clock ticking down to about one minute left in the third quarter? Can they clamp down defensively and se...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Dallas Mavericks have relied on bench scoring all season. That hasn't changed in this series and bench play stands to be a significant factor in tonight's Game 6. "You can almost say it's the battle of the benches," said Mavs...

DALLAS -- The curious case of Brandon Roy heads back to the Rose Garden. It's up to the Dallas Mavericks to solve this riddle in Game 6 in Portland where Roy has devastated Dallas or face a Game 7. The difference in Roy's performances from Games 1...

The Mavericks have refused to unravel when faced with adversity.

The bad blood is flowing as the Dallas Mavericks and Portland Trail Blazers head into Game 6 of their Western Conference playoff series.

Tyson Chandler provided big numbers and an emotional boost to the Mavs.

DALLAS -- Film don't lie. And, what the Dallas Mavericks saw over and over again was Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy, with two surgically repaired knees, dribbling by Jason Kidd or Jason Terry or Shawn Marion and finding a path of no resista...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The right call was made after a video review reversed the on-court call and awarded the Portland Trail Blazers possession after a scramble for a loose rebound late in Game 4, NBA spokesman Tim Frank confirmed Sunday. With the sco...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Jason Kidd Show that swept the nation -- and in particular the Portland Trail Blazers -- has hit a rough patch. After scoring 24 and 18 points in Games 1 and 2, respectively, to lead the Dallas Mavericks to a 2-0 lead, Kidd w...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Elias Sports Bureau quickly hopped on the Mavericks' 23-point implosion and came back with this: Portland becomes the third team in the shot clock era (since 1954) to win a playoff game when trailing by 18 points or more enterin...