They were supposed to be 40 percent of the first-team lineup. So how did the Mavs win a title without their ‘Robin’ and their ‘Boy Wonder’? An examination of a championship run absent Caron Butler and Roddy Beaubois … Take a peek back at the 2011 NBA Playoff and Finals highlights and your eyes will [...]
It’s time. Time for our Dallas Mavericks to put the wooden stake through the heart of the Dirk mocking, fake coughing Miami Heat. Time for the pompous trio from South Beach to start thinking about what might have been if they hadn’t had a coaching and execution meltdown in the final 6 minutes of game [...]
It’s Big. Huge actually. Thursday’s night’s Game 5 showdown with the Miami Heat is the biggest game, without doubt, we’ve seen for our Mavs since 2006, and most would say it’s the biggest game in the history of the franchise. Tim Cowlishaw of The Morning News went one step further and touted it as the [...]
Beginning last October, Texas Rangers baseball has gone where it has never gone before and TCU football somewhere not seen since the 1930′s. Both Tarrant County products won national acclaim, but neither will be considered the best in their respective major sports in 2010 (at least barring an even larger Auburn football scandal). “Number 2″ [...]
If the Mavericks can manage to turn the trick on the Thunder again tonight in OKC the Western Conference title is theirs. Now technically they’d still have to win one more game, but for all intent and purposes the Mavs can’t lose if they go up 3-1. Especially if they can beat the Thunder at [...]
The countdown to tip-off has begun. The young upstarts from north of the Red River vs. your veteran-laden home town heroes. Everything about this series between the Mavericks and the Thunder suggests a a quick dismissal of the young’uns by the Mavs and onto the Finals against either Derrick Rose and the Bulls or the [...]
Seven days and counting. It will be nine days off by the time the 2011 Western Conference Finals commence for your Dallas Mavericks at the American Airlines Center Tuesday night. Depending on who you talk to it’s either a perfect scenario for a team loaded with a bunch of thirty-something-year-old veterans like the Mavs – [...]
We have not taken a survey of the Dallas Mavericks locker room, asking each of the fellas what’s on their iPods. (We’re fairly certain that David Hasselhoff is NOT, contrary to myth, on Dirk Nowitzki’s playlist.) But as the Mavs marched through another 50-win season (for the 11th straight year), earned a regular-season tie with [...]