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Mavericks vs Suns Preview and Injury Update: Last late game of the year

The Dallas Mavericks (25-54) stay on the road on Wednesday night, this time playing the Phoenix Suns (43-36). Dallas played Tuesday night against the Clippers and couldn’t rally back after getting down huge early in the contest. The Suns enter the game having lost last night to the Houston Rockets. Here are the main things […]

MMBets: The Dallas Mavericks visit the Phoenix Suns

No ice cream tonight. Under the weather, end of a long season, and somehow still scanning lines at tipoff time — that’s dedication. The Dallas Mavericks (25-54) close out their final back-to-back set in Phoenix against the Suns (43-35), both teams playing on one night’s rest. Dallas just dropped 116-103 to the Clippers on Tuesday. […]

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Mavericks Reacts Survey: Closing out the regular season

Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Mavs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Please take our survey Answers to come later this week! Sign up for the weekly survey!

Mavericks vs. Suns Preview: 3 notes before Dallas travels to Phoenix

We’re so close to the end of a dreadful 2025-26 season of Dallas Mavericks basketball that we can taste it. Wednesday’s game between the Mavericks (25-54) and the Phoenix Suns (43-35) at Mortgage Matchup Center wraps up the final back-to-back set for Dallas with three games remaining on the schedule. The Mavs are coming into […]

Mavs YouTube RoundUp Spotlight: Flagg shakes up the ROY vote

It had to feel like it was all slipping away. Cooper Flagg missed games with a foot injury, and while he was sidelined, his former Duke roommate was busy doing the one thing more impactful than posting impressive stat lines — Kon Knueppel was reshaping the narrative. More games played, cleaner shooting metrics, a winning […]

Mavericks vs. Clippers Preview: 3 notes before Dallas travels to Los Angeles

What feat of strength will Cooper Flagg perform next? Find out when the Dallas Mavericks (25-53) wrap up their two-night residency in Los Angeles on Tuesday with a game against the Clippers at the Intuit Dome. Tipoff is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. CDT. On Friday, Flagg gave the Orlando Magic 51 on 19-of-30 shooting. On […]

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NBA Lottery Watch: the Mavericks’ final push to the draft

We are four games from the end of this season. You may be surprised to learn that the season began in October and not last February, a time that’s often felt like one continuous trudge through drama and losing for 15 months. The light, and absolutely spectacular rookie season from Cooper Flagg, has maintained its […]

Player Grades: Grading the Mavericks 134-128 win vs. Lakers

For the first time in nearly three months, the Dallas Mavericks finally won a game at the American Airlines Center against a depleted Lakers squad. The Mavericks offense was clicking all night, with the paint scoring being especially impressive. While the defensive effort was lackluster, it’s hard to ask anymore of this Mavericks team. Without […]

Mavericks vs Lakers Preview and Injury Update: An ugly Sunday game

The Dallas Mavericks (24-53) are home for an early Sunday evening game against the Los Angeles Lakers (50-27). The Mavericks are coming off a loss against the Orlando Magic, but one where Cooper Flagg was on fire from the field and he scored 51. The Lakers had a devestating loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder […]

Jason Kidd is right: The Mavericks need to move on

Jason Kidd is correct about some things. The Dallas Mavericks do need to move on. The team’s record should be higher than 24-53 after falling to the Magic on Friday night. They have played in 42 clutch games (16-26) this season, and to the credit of veterans like Daniel Gafford, PJ Washington, Naji Marshall, and […]

SB Reacts: Mavericks fans and the Final Four

This week’s Dallas Mavericks centeric poll centered around the NCAA Men’s Final Four. Yes there’s still plenty of NBA basketball on (and perhaps you could and should go make a wager on NBA Rookie of the Year, now that Cooper Flagg has potentially recaptured momentum), but I think most of our fans are thinking ahead […]

The NBA’s anti-tanking plans and how they affect the Mavs – Part IV

By now you’ve likely seen our first three parts (Part I, Part II, Part III) covering the NBA’s attempt to curb tanking. In this, our fourth and final part, we’ll take a look at the last of the proposed changes being brought before the Board of Governors. For ease of reference, here are the basics […]

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Give Cooper Flagg the Rookie of the Year award, you bums

Mere hours after a straw poll of NBA media members said Charlotte Hornets forward Kon Knueppel was firmly in the lead for the NBA Rookie of the Year award as the 2025-26 season winds down, Cooper Flagg made a closing argument that would put Perry Mason to shame. Flagg poured in 38 of his game-high […]

Player Grades: Recapping the Mavericks’ 138-127 loss vs. Magic

The Dallas Mavericks kicked off the weekend with a Friday night matchup against the Orlando Magic. Both teams came in ice cold, each 2-8 in their past 10 games. But Orlando had too much firepower against a shorthanded Dallas, as the Mavericks home losing streak extended to 14. But it didn’t matter because there was […]

Cooper Flagg gets blown out in ESPN’s Rookie of the Year Straw Poll

The results from Tim Bontemps’ final 2025-26 NBA MVP straw poll over at ESPN are in, and though the race between Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and San Antonio Spurs big man Victor Wembanyama appears to be as close as it ever has been, Gilgeous-Alexander actually won it in what looks like a walk. […]

Are the Mavs the most ethical, tanking team?

There are those of you who might say that the Dallas Mavericks are just plain bad, and that’s why they’re losing. And good for them, because working hard every night to try your best to win has a multitude of underrated payoffs, which will benefit both the players and the team down the line.  The […]

Mavericks vs Magic Preview: 3 notes before Dallas hosts Orlando

The struggle bus will be parked outside American Airlines Center on Friday as the Dallas Mavericks (24-52) host the Orlando Magic (40-36) and both teams limp toward the end of the 2025-26 NBA season. We get through this one, and there are only five more of these things to go. You can do this, Mavs […]