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The fact that the New Orleans Hornets are horrible helped the Dallas Mavericks' cause. The Mavs actually had a little motivation, too, wanting to at least finish .500. Point guard Darren Collison, perhaps playing his final game for the Mavs, li...

NEW ORLEANS - After arriving in the NBA, Dirk Nowitzki didn't know whether he could survive 25 games, much less score 25,000 points. Here he is, 15 years later, one of 17 members of the league's exclusive 25,000-point club. "And as he showed t...

NEW ORLEANS -- It took the Dallas Mavericks 121 days to get back to .500. It took Dirk Nowitzki maybe 90 seconds to get rid of the beard he has been growing for most of that time. "That shave felt amazing," Nowitzki said after a 107-89 victory ...

The Dallas Mavericks' final step of their grueling climb back to .500 ended up being a pretty easy one. On a milestone night for Dirk Nowitzki, who joined the 25,000-point club, the Mavs led by double digits from late in the first quarter until th...

Dallas Mavericks star forward Dirk Nowitzki became the 17th member of the NBA's 25,000-point club Saturday.

NEW ORLEANS - Maybe the fourth time will be the charm when it comes to breaking the Mavericks' .500 failures. Some call it the Curse of Omar the Barber, whom O.J. Mayo publicly welcomed to shave those scraggly .500 beards when the Mavs got their f...

DALLAS -- This needed to be the stretch where the Dallas Mavericks made up some major ground in the Western Conference playoff race. They played seven of eight games at home with the only road trip against the lowly New Orleans Hornets. The Mavs ...

You don't rank among the all-time leading scorers in NBA history without hitting a lot of big buckets. Vince Carter added to his list during Friday night's comeback win over the New Orleans Hornets, when he moved past Gary Payton into 28th place o...

How it happened: After struggling to score for most of the fourth quarter, the Dallas Mavericks pulled off a stunning comeback in the final minute. Hornets forward Ryan Anderson's 3-pointer with a little less than a minute remaining felt like a da...

DALLAS - Mavericks center Chris Kaman participated in contact drills Thursday for the first time since suffering a concussion Jan. 28. Coach Rick Carlisle said Kaman would not play Friday night against the New Orleans Hornets but could be availabl...

The odds of the New Orleans Hornets trading shooting guard Eric Gordon before the Feb. 21 deadline are slim. The odds of the Mavs trading for Gordon before the deadline are much closer to none. However, ESPN's Chris Broussard reports in an Insi...

DALLAS - Dirk Nowitzki is a starter again, but he's not a savior. That's not a realistic expectation for a 34-year-old with a patchwork supporting cast at any point. And Nowitzki certainly isn't ready to put the franchise on his back again yet. ...

DALLAS - If this isn't rock bottom, then the Dallas Mavericks are heading to hell. They've lost eight of their last nine games, with the Mavs' lone win during that miserable stretch a comeback against the Washington Wizards, who own the worst reco...

How it happened: The Mavericks let the Western Conference's worst team rally from a double-digit deficit. The game was decided in overtime, in which the Mavs are incapable of winning this season, but it never should have gotten to that point. The ...

Mavericks star forward Dirk Nowitzki made his first start of the season Saturday night against the New Orleans Hornets.

DALLAS -- After mentioning that he thought the Mavs held their ground on the glass Monday night, Shawn Marion asked what the rebounding numbers were. Well, Matrix, the Hornets had a 62-40 edge. "What?!" Marion replied. Um, 62-40. "Was it...