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To suggest that the Dallas Mavericks' new backcourt combo of point guard Darren Collison and shooting guard O.J. Mayo will attack the rim with greater frequency than the old guard of Jason Kidd and Jason Terry is like saying Dirk Nowitzki is tall. It...

Dirk Nowitzki must step up for Mavs to survive vs. Thunder.

Here are the top 10 reasons to be excited as the Mavs set out to defend their title.

Mavs owner Mark Cuban again voiced his displeasure with top NBA players participating in international competition.

Shawn Marion pulled down a power forward-like 14 rebounds Tuesday night. Down the final stretch, more of those rebounds might actually come from the power forward spot. Marion, averaging 11.0 points and a team-high 7.2 rebounds at small forward, h...

DALLAS -- The NBA has issued the Defensive Player of the Year award since the 1982-83 season. In the 1988-89 season the league might as well have renamed it the Defensive Big Man of the Year award. Five of the six first winners were guards as dimi...

Is this the week? The week that the Dallas Mavericks finally become whole? The week this team just maybe begins to come together? Begins to show what kind of team it can be? With 16 regular-season games left and the West standings more gumme...

Mavericks and Nets both hope to unite Dwight Howard and Deron Williams.

Mark Cuban was hoping for, oh, three minutes for his superstar, but he'll be happy with the 14 minutes Dirk Nowitzki logged jogging up and down Dwight Howard's home floor -- tick, tick, tick -- in Sunday night's All-Star Game. In his 11th consecut...

It's been one heck of a two-month start into this shortened, hyper-speed season for Dirk Nowitzki. First he had to digest the fact that Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was not bringing the championship team back intact, first and foremost Tyson ...

DALLAS -- It certainly is odd for the loser of the NBA Finals to begin the following season in the champion's house. It's a little awkward, too, considering the pomp and circumstance surrounding the home team's banner raising and final celebration of...

DALLAS -- It took all of one half for Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle to shake up his starting lineup. Vince Carter, an eight-time All-Star, took a seat to start the third quarter as backup point guard Delonte West got the nod at shooting guard ...

DALLAS -- Finally, the banner comes up and the 2011-12 season goes off. If it wasn't a strange enough offseason, followed by a frenzied free agency period and a rushed training camp, the rare occurrence of the two NBA Finals teams meeting in the s...

DALLAS -- The Dallas Mavericks wrapped up their final practice before Sunday's season opener against the Miami Heat by taking the workout off the basement practice floor and onto the game floor of the American Airlines Center. Overhead, space was ...

DALLAS -- Rick Carlisle is planning to keep his team's emotions in check Sunday afternoon as the championship banner is raised to the rafters before the season opener against LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the rest of the Miami Heat, who, by the way, ...

DALLAS -- On Thursday, just three days before the Dallas Mavericks are to begin their title defense against the Miami Heat, coach Rick Carlisle said the secret to any early success for his retooled team on the fly starts with simplicity. "Simplici...