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DALLAS -- It appears the Dallas Mavericks will have to go at least one more game without injured players Brendan Haywood and Delonte West. Haywood, who has missed the last five games with a sprained right knee, continues to get closer, but it does...

Worried about Dirk Nowitzki's achy knee, Vince Carter's sprained foot or Lamar Odom's state of mind? Need a respite from the whirlwind that is the lockout-shortened schedule and the uncertainty that comes with it? Want to remember how things used ...

After shooting 6-of-18 for 17 points in Wednesday's 91-89 loss to the Clippers, Dirk Nowitzki acknowledged that his right knee is causing him problems.

Before Wednesday night's home game, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said Dirk Nowitzki was definitely coming around, but Cuban still didn't think his star was all the way back from the sprained right knee that sidelined him for nine games in late D...

The drives as only Dirk Nowitzki can do them are coming back. The step-backs and fallaways are no longer hitting front rim or -- gasp -- nothing at all. Two weeks after his return from a sprained right knee, Nowitzki is regaining the shooting touc...

DALLAS -- After hitting for 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting, Dirk Nowitzki said there was at least one thing he was capable of doing Saturday night different from the rest of his return from a sprained right knee. "Make a shot," Nowitzki said. "That...

NEWARK -- Whether Dirk Nowitzki is fit to play is up to him, the medical staff and the coaching staff -- and not, say, Charles Barkley. Four games back from a sprained right knee, though, the numbers suggest Dirk isn't Dirk. To the naked, non-m...

CHICAGO -- Charles Barkley believes Dirk Nowitzki returned too early from a sprained right knee and said so late Thursday night on the TNT postgame show. Barkley said, "He is not healthy. He looks like he's dragging his leg. If Dirk Nowitzki's not...

SAN ANTONIO -- Dirk Nowitzki put in his most rigorous day of work during his recovery process from a sprained right knee, including his first contact work during the morning shootaround. During the Mavs' ugly 101-89 defeat to the San Antonio Spurs, N...

The Mavs saw their chance to cruise through the Western Conference vanish.

Dirk Nowitzki missed his eighth consecutive game with a sprained right knee as the Dallas Mavericks opened a four-game road trip on Wednesday night against the Indiana Pacers.

DALLAS -- After playing seven games in 12 days since Dirk Nowitzki sprained his right knee -- and then Caron Butler was lost for the season -- a three-day break comes at the right time for the Dallas Mavericks to assess where they are, and even who t...

Dirk Nowitzki will miss his seventh straight game on Saturday.

DALLAS -- Dirk Nowitzki won't play tonight against the Oklahoma City Thunder. It will be the sixth consecutive game the Dallas Mavericks' leading scorer will miss since he sprained his right knee Dec. 27 in Oklahoma City. "He's getting gradually b...

Dirk Nowitzki missed his sixth straight game with a knee injury Thursday.

DALLAS -- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle stuck by his stance of not providing a Daily Dirk Watch, so the status of the team's leading scorer's sprained right knee heading into Thursday's home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder is the same as it's ...