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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...

Mavericks forward Shawn Marion is inactive for Friday night's game against the Detroit Pistons due to a left calf contusion. Marion got kicked in the calf during Wednesday night's win over the Houston Rockets, when he scored a team-high-tying 22 p...

It's pointless to try to predict what starting lineup Rick Carlisle is going to pull out of a hat. Brandan Wright made his first start in almost four months during Wednesday night's win over the Houston Rockets. Think that's strange? Mike James ma...

DALLAS - When O.J. Mayo glanced at the box score after Wednesday night's win, the career-high 12 assists in his line looked good. The zero turnovers looked even better. "Just trying to be a playmaker, you know?" Mayo said with a grin. Maybe tha...

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...

How it happened: The Mavericks got their measure of revenge. A few days after their defensive debacle in Houston, the Mavs won a wild rematch with the Rockets. It isn't like Dallas shut down Houston in this game, but this was a drastic defensiv...

DALLAS -- Believe it or not, there are starting lineup combinations that Rick Carlisle hasn't tried yet this season. Carlisle is going with a new one -- the Mavs' 19th of the season -- for the rematch against the Rockets. Center Brandan Wright and...

DALLAS - The last time the Mavericks endured a losing season, there was a lot of legitimate, tangible reason for hope. Michael Finley was an established, young franchise cornerstone. Steve Nash turned a corner in his career midway through that sea...

DALLAS - For better or worse, the Mavericks get a rematch with the Houston Rockets. OK, it can't get much worse than Sunday's defensive debacle, when the Rockets torched the Mavs for 44 points in the third quarter en route to a 136-103 blowout. ...

HOUSTON - How did things go so humiliatingly haywire for the Mavericks in the third quarter of what could be considered a high-stakes game? "I don't have an explanation for it," coach Rick Carlisle said after the Mavs' 136-103 loss Sunday to the R...

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 ...

You didn't think a third quarter could be worse than the Dallas Mavericks' meltdown in Memphis on Wednesday? Well, how about the third quarter Sunday night in Houston? This was every bit as much of a defensive disaster as the third quarter in M...

HOUSTON -- Anthony Morrow will have to keep waiting to score his first point for the Dallas Mavericks. Coach Rick Carlisle said Morrow will be inactive due against the Houston Rockets due to a hip injury. The sharpshooting Morrow has been score...

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...

DALLAS - Dirk Nowitzki described the Lakers as a "perfect situation" for Dwight Howard earlier this season, which isn't exactly the best way to begin the recruiting pitch in an attempt to bring the NBA's best big man to Dallas. Of course, there's ...

DALLAS - How many games do the Mavs need to win after the All-Star break to make the playoffs? "Thirty," point guard Darren Collison said. That just happens to be the number of games remaining on the Mavs' schedule. Collison's point isn't that ...