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Mark Cuban & Co. must figure out how to fill the voids left by their Dallas departures.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban blames himself for the franchise's failure to make the playoffs this season.

This is unfamiliar, uncomfortable territory for Mark Cuban.

DALLAS - For the first time in a dozen years, the Dallas Mavericks won't participate in the playoffs. The Mavs' 12-year streak was snapped Wednesday night when they were officially eliminated due to their home loss to the lowly Phoenix Suns and th...

DALLAS - Dirk Nowitzki declared recently that the playoffs have essentially already begun for the Dallas Mavericks. The big German certainly has looked like postseason Dirk recently. There were a couple of performances last week that were remin...

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 -- Any discussion about the Dallas Mavericks as a playoff team is premature. At least it is if it's in the presence of the men who just want to keep their heads down and continue digging their way out of the massive hole they created in the...

At first glance, the math doesn't look too daunting. After winning four of the last five games, the Dallas Mavericks are only three games out of eighth place in the Western Conference. They've given themselves a slim chance at extending the franch...

DALLAS -- This game was all about the Mavericks' pride, not their puny playoff chances. A box score from Sunday's blowout loss in Houston was printed out and taped on the whiteboard in the front of the home locker room at the American Airlines Cen...

HOUSTON - Can we please all stop pretending that a playoff push is a realistic possibility for these Dallas Mavericks? With six weeks left in this miserable season, the Mavs are seven games below .500 and six games out of the West's final playoff ...

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...

Dirk Nowitzki is coming to the realization that the Dallas Mavericks' 12-year streak of making the playoffs is very much in jeopardy.

DALLAS -- For more than a decade, Dallas Mavericks fans could take a couple of things to the bank. Dirk Nowitzki would be an All-Star, and the Mavs would make the playoffs. Well, Nowitzki will spend his All-Star weekend relaxing on a beach. Rea...

The Mavs will have to beat the odds to make the playoffs, but they aren't giving up.

Dirk Nowitzki doesn't want to play for another NBA franchise, but he also doesn't want to finish his career just fighting for the Western Conference's final playoff spot.

DALLAS -- With the Dallas Mavericks' 12-season playoff streak in serious jeopardy, star forward Dirk Nowitzki expressed strong doubt about the front office's plan for the franchise's future, even wondering whether it'd be in the Mavs' best interests ...