The cheese stain on your pants, the corn chip crumbs engrained into your sweater, and the empty cans wedge underneath the leg rest as you try to put it down to it’s upright position. It’s been a great 11 hour basketball marathon.
Well great doesn’t really seem like the right adjective.
The Dallas Mavericks have rounded the final turn, and find themselves coming down the stretch. Less than 4 weeks left in the season, and the Mavericks have lost their swagger.
The Mavericks are the oldest team in the league, the Boston Celtics are the second oldest. The Celtics have been through a [...]

The Chicago Bulls came out in their green jerseys to try their hand at getting some extra luck against the Mavericks. It didn’t turn out very well.
There was a Jason Terry sighting on the court at the AA Center, meaning that the Mavericks are officially at full strength for the stretch run. Granted Terry will need a little time to get accustomed to his new grill, the clear hard plastic mask that Terry wears now to protect his face. Erick Dampier appeared to be running the court cleanly and smoothly, yet I would say he is at 95%.
The point being, [...]

Wisconsin is really not known as a “hotbed” for NBA talent, which may be why no one really heard of Devin Harris coming out of the University of Wisconsin.
In only his second year, Harris was a key player on a Dallas Mavericks team that made it all the way to the NBA Finals before falling to Dwayne Wade, Shaquille O’Neal, and the Miami Heat in six games.
“It was a great accomplishment,” Harris says of making it to the NBA Championship. “We fell a little short of our goals though. It was exciting, it was also very frustrating coming up just [...]

It’s awkward to watch, yet you cannot turn away from it. You squirm in your chair, it seems nearly impossible to get comfortable watching it. You laugh, you cry, you moan, and you shake your head. You try to explain it, but you really can’t.
The New Jersey Nets are bad.
The Mavericks won their 13th straight game, and tied the Cleveland Cavaliers for the longest win streak in the NBA this year. The Mavericks have the chance to extend their win streak to 14 straight on Saturday night against the New York Knicks.
The Mavericks didn’t play great; they didn’t play bad [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves came to a shootout with one gun, Al Jefferson. One gun wasn’t enough to win. As was the case in Chicago when Derek Rose tried to single-handedly beat the Mavericks, the short-handed Mavericks were able to leave Minnesota with their 12th straight win.
The Mavericks cannot continue to get into shootouts.
Once again the Mavericks were playing without Brendan Haywood, Erick Dampier, and Jason Terry. To add insult to injury, less than two minutes into the game Dirk Nowitzki picked up his second foul and had to take a seat on the bench for most of the first half.
Through [...]

The Mavericks won with a complete team effort.
Dirk Nowitzki had 27 points to once again lead the team in scoring. Caron Butler and Rob Beaubois both scored 24, and Shawn Marion chipped in with 18 points. Jason Kidd fell 4 points short of a triple double with 15 assists, 11 rebounds.
It has been said that if opportunity doesn’t knock, to build a door. Beaubois has been given an incredible opportunity with Terry being out for an undetermined time, Rod has walked through that door of opportunity.
Beaubois’ scoring has increased the last three games. On Wednesday it was 17 points, last [...]

Winning 10 straight games in the NBA is nothing to sneeze at, so excuse me if I don’t hand you a tissue. Whether you want to consider it “winning ugly” or “beating bad opponents,” fact is the Mavericks are winning.
The Los Angeles Lakers lost tonight at Charlotte, so excuse me when I say a win is a win, and you should never take a win for granted.
The Mavericks won 108-100 at home against the Sacramento Kings. Yet the storyline is, Mavericks keep winning as the injuries pile up.
It was reported by numerous outlets that Jason Terry will be out a [...]

With Jason Kidd inactive for the game to simply give the old veteran a rest, the Mavericks found themselves in a dogfight. The Mavericks were tested, but pulled out their ninth straight win.
The Mavericks won, 112-109, and that’s all that counts.
The Timberwolves were playing their second straight game without their star Al Jefferson, who is currently suspended for his DUI arrest. Despite being without Jefferson, the Timberwolves were tough to shake. Corey Brewster led the Wolves with 24 points.
Rod Beaubois was called on to provide a spark, and he lit a fire. “Coach told J.J. and I to be ready [...]

The beat goes on, yes the beat goes on.
The Mavericks went into Charlotte after a tough game the night before and won. Let’s hide the pictures from this one though, it was ugly.
With Butler, Nowitzki, and Terry all scoring over 20 points, the Mavericks withstood some cold shooting. They also fought through a case of laziness.
The breaths were deep, the hands on the shorts were prevalent, and fast breaks were caught in slow motion. Yet they won, and that’s all that counts when you are in a playoff push like the Mavericks find themselves in.
The Mavericks held the Bobcats to [...]

The Mavericks seemed to be a finely tuned engine purring their way to a seventh straight win, but things aren’t always what they seem.
With a twenty plus halftime lead that crept up to a twenty five point lead in the third quarter, ended up being a close game down the stretch.
The third quarter was once the power quarter for the Mavericks, yet the last two games they have been outscored by more then ten points each game. It seemed as though the intensity was taken away, and the New Orleans Hornets took advantage of that.
Led by Dirk Nowitzki’s 36 points, [...]