Guard DeShawn Stevenson will return to the Mavericks next season after exercising his player option to do so last week, his agent Mark Bartelstein said Monday ... Bartelstein said it was the right move for Stevenson after considering the free agent market this summer and after playing limited minutes for Dallas last season. Stevenson, 29, arrived in the same trade with Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood in February. He averaged 2.0 points and 11.1 minutes once joining the Mavs from Washington ...
OK, let's get this straight. The San Antonio Spurs beat the Mavericks in six games in the first round of the NBA playoffs and Gregg Popovich is the greatest basketball mind in history and Rick Carlisle is an idiot ... So now, the Spurs are down 3-0 to the Phoenix Suns and we know now that Alvin Gentry is a mastermind and Popovich is an idiot ... Right? ... Anybody? ... The Spurs are down 3-0 to the Suns for the same reason that the Mavs got whacked in the first round ... There are more players
According to the New York Post, Mark Cuban has teamed up with Joe Francis to show a 12-part series, “Girls Gone Wild Presents: Search for the Hottest Girl in America,” on HDNet. It begins airing next Thursday, if you’re into that kind of thing. (This is one “reality” show that Laura Kostelny should not have [ ... ] ...
Mark Followill, TV play-by-play man for the Dallas Mavericks, answers your questions about the team in a live chat at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Please join us by clicking here. Mobile users can participate by clicking here ...
Couldn't help but notice that in Game 1 of the Spurs-Suns series last night/early this morning (thanks again, TNT), George Hill was 0-for-5 from 3-point range. And a lot of those shots were of the wide-open variety ... If he'd made just a couple of those, the Spurs might not be down 1-0 in the second round ... Anybody remember a week or 10 days ago when Hill never missed one of those shots against the Mavericks? Well, that might be selective memory ... Bear in mind, Hill was 2-of-9 in the first
The new way for teams to recruit a coach in the NBA is to visit the prospective hiree, not the other way around ... To that end, all the top officials from the New Orleans Hornets were in Dallas this morning to meet with Mavericks' assistant coach Dwane Casey about that franchise's open head-coaching position ... New owner Gary Chouest, whose purchase from George Shinn should be official soon, president Hugh Weber and General Manager Jeff Bower all visited Casey, who has been on coach Rick
Mavericks assistant coach Dwane Casey is one of several candidates who will interview for the New Orleans Hornets' head coaching position, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune ... Casey joined the Mavericks shortly after a head coaching stint with the Minnesota Timberwolves from 2005-07 ... Casey's name has also been discussed as a possibility for the Clippers' job and the 76ers' opening ... The Hornets' list of possible candidates also includes former Mavericks coach Avery Johnson, a
Our good friends at Bodog.com have placed odds on where LeBron James will end up next season and it sounds like the wise-guys know something (as usual) ... They have installed the Cavaliers as heavy, heavy, heavy favorites to retain James. And as we have maintained all along, if the Cavaliers win the title, he has no choice but to stay ... Interesting, however, that the Mavericks made the short list ... So here's the list of teams with their odds to gain LeBron's services, or at least who he'll
Seems that Westlake’s only toniest gated-golf community, Vaquero, is popping up in local ESPN and Dallas Morning News sports stories about Chuck Greenberg’s protracted procurement of one Texas Rangers Major League Basebol club.Candy has been reporting on Vaquero’s celebrity resident population for ages and even I can attest to the appeal of the community’s picturesque [ ... ] ...
The Dallas Mavericks play the Phoenix Suns on Oct. 9 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in an outdoor preseason game in Indian Wells, Calif., and tickets went on sale today. Prices range from $10 to $100. For tickets, you can call 760-200-8000 or get information here ...