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The Mavericks continue to struggle to keep big teams off the offensive backboards and those problems can be directly tied to Sunday's overtime loss to the Lakers and Monday's triple-overtime defeat at Utah. Just look at the numbers. Against the La...

Carlisle preaches patience as basketball gods continue to haunt the Mavericks.

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Mavericks are coming off their highest minutes game across the board of the season with five players logging at least 37 minutes, led by Dirk Nowitzki going 43 and Jason Kidd hitting 39, his first venture of more than 35 minutes...

LOS ANGELES -- Brandan Wright is one Mavericks player who hopes he doesn't have to see the Lakers again. "If we do play them [in the first round], if it goes the way we've been playing this year, I guess I will be a non-factor," Wright said. "But,...

DALLAS -- Mavericks guard Jason Terry loves his Arizona Wildcats, but he's not afraid to call a trade the way he sees it even it involves one of his fellow Cats. That said, Terry said the deal that reunited the Spurs and Stephen Jackson by sending...

DALLAS -- Dirk Nowitzki received a rousing ovation upon being announced in the starting lineup for his first game back since Jan. 19. After that, he was Dirk the decoy. With Jason Kidd sidelined by a right calf and Rodrigue Beaubois running the po...

Entering their 16th game of the season, the Dallas Mavericks are looking to avoid their second three-game skid of the season while trying to secure only their second win against a winning team. The Utah Jazz, which includes former Mavs Devin Harri...

The Dallas Mavericks just finished off a rare sweep of four games in five nights and they got stronger at the end, winning the final two games by a combined 65 points. Starting tonight, the Mavs kick off four games in six nights, but the competiti...

SAN ANTONIO -- It certainly appeared as though the San Antonio Spurs were prepared to use the amnesty provision on Richard Jefferson to make room to sign former Dallas Mavericks forward Caron Butler. And then Butler chose to sign with the Los Ange...

Caron Bulter met with the Spurs amid a report that San Antonio will cut Richard Jefferson.

LOS ANGELES -- The Dallas Mavericks haven't faced the Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs since 1988, more than a decade before most of today's players entered the league - including Jason Kidd. It doesn't mean that all of the Mavs are facing the L...

PHOENIX -- The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Utah Jazz Saturday night by17 points and beat them at the free throw line by 16. The Mavs held a 32-17 advantage in free throw attempts and a 26-10 edge in free throws made. The discrepancy in attempts ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle called Saturday's 94-77 win against a depleted Utah Jazz team that led 70-68 with 6:21 to play a "great game." In this case, great is relative. "I felt like we were watching the NCAA tourna...

DALLAS -- For years, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has spared no expense to acquire talent. It wasn't always money well spent, but it was money spent in the name of doing whatever it takes to put a winner on the floor. The lone glaring excepti...

The Utah Jazz have undergone some changes. Carlos Boozer and Kyle Korver defected to Chicago. But, in came big Al Jefferson and veteran agitator Raja Bell, and the Jazz might be better than ever. With arguably the league's best point guard, Deron ...

The Dallas Mavericks just completed a phenomenal week in which they swept four games in five nights. In the NBA, there's little rest for the weary. The team took Sunday off to recharge for another busy week, this time four games in six days. At le...