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• Mood for today. 😤 @deandre | #MFFL https://t.co/kqQfLmL5tw

  17-10-2018 18:24 via twitter.com
  
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• ‘Unacceptable’ free-throw shooting sabotages strong Mavericks’ effort

  14-05-2024 07:26 via mavs.com
  
  As long as the NBA playoffs exist, there will be chatter about the officiating.
  But no matter whether the calls are even or one team feels like they got slighted, there’s a simple truth that overrides everything else regarding the whistles.
  If you don’t make your free throws, none of the rest matters, a fact that slapped the Mavericks into the loss column on Monday night.
  They had too many misfires when they were wide-open from 15 feet and that doomed them in Game 4 as Oklahoma City
  
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• Gilgeous-Alexander scores 34 points as OKC stuns Mavs, 100-96

  14-05-2024 07:22 via mavs.com
  
  Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, and the Dallas Mavericks missed 11 free throws, paving the way for the Oklahoma City Thunder to get out of American Airlines Center with a heart-stopping 100-96 victory on Monday night.
  With the win by OKC, this best-of-seven Western Conference semifinals series is tied at 2-2.
  Game 5 is Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in Oklahoma City and Game 6 is Saturday at AAC. If necessary, a Game 7 will be played in OKC on May 20.
  The Mavs led by as many as 14 points, but
  
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• Gafford, Lively leading solid efforts to slow Holmgren

  13-05-2024 03:37 via mavs.com
  
  On paper, coming into this Western Conference semifinals series, Oklahoma City center Chet Holmgren had a distinct advantage over the Dallas Mavericks’ two-headed center combination of Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively II.
  After all, Holmgren is the Thunder’s glorified first-year player who would have been the easy choice to win this season’s Rookie of the Year award if not for some phenom over in San Antonio name Victory Wembanyama. That’s the type of skill-set Holmgren h
  
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• Gafford, Lively and others doing solid job on Holmgren

  13-05-2024 03:37 via mavs.com
  
  On paper, coming into this Western Conference semifinals series, Oklahoma City center Chet Holmgren had a distinct advantage over the Dallas Mavericks’ two-headed center combination of Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively II.
  After all, Holmgren is the Thunder’s glorified first-year player who would have been the easy choice to win this season’s Rookie of the Year award if not for some phenom over in San Antonio name Victory Wembanyama. That’s the type of skill-set Holmgren h
  
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• Dort’s dogged defense making life difficult for Dončić

  12-05-2024 21:08 via mavs.com
  
  As he trudged off the court Saturday afternoon, Luka Dončić didn’t look like a 25 year old.
  More like 75.
  Slow and creaky, he ambled toward the locker room and then to his postgame news conference room, his body still wrapped in leggings and athletic tape and supportive sleeves and Lord knows what else.
  So what’s hurting?
  “Everything,” he said. “I’m just trying to battle out there. I’m glad we got the win.”
  In the superstar point guard&rs
  
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• Lively felt disrespected — then knocked down five key free throws

  12-05-2024 03:00 via mavs.com
  
  When the Oklahoma City Thunder were in the middle of intentionally fouling him in the tensed fourth quarter during Saturday’s playoff game at American Airlines Center, Dallas Mavericks backup center Dereck Lively II had one definitive thought that came across his mind when he was pressed to convert some crucial free throws.
  Lively said: “It was like, ‘Alright, you’re going to disrespect me? I’m going to come up and I’m going to knock them down.’ “
  
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• Mavericks won’t be bullied as proven in rugged Game 3 victory

  12-05-2024 00:08 via mavs.com
  
  Just when it looked like the Mavericks were going to fall victim to the home-court hex that seems to be going viral around the NBA playoffs, they dug deep as if their playoff lives depended on it.
  And they might have.
  The Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder played a leave-it-all-out there playoff game on Saturday afternoon and the Mavericks persevered down the stretch for an exhausting 105-101 victory at American Airlines Center.
  And we mean exhausting for the fans who had to withstand a slew of
  
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• Mavericks grind out rugged Game 3 victory, 105-101

  12-05-2024 00:08 via mavs.com
  
  Just when it looked like the Mavericks were going to fall victim to the home-court hex that seems to be going around the NBA playoffs like a virus, they dug deep as if their playoff lives depended on it.
  And they might have.
  The Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder played a leave-it-all-out there playoff game on Saturday afternoon and the Mavericks persevered down the stretch for an exhausting 105-101 victory at American Airlines Center.
  And we mean exhausting for the fans who had to withstand a
  
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• Game 3 victory proves Mavericks won’t be bullied

  12-05-2024 00:08 via mavs.com
  
  Just when it looked like the Mavericks were going to fall victim to the home-court hex that seems to be going viral around the NBA playoffs, they dug deep as if their playoff lives depended on it.
  And they might have.
  The Mavericks and Oklahoma City Thunder played a leave-it-all-out there playoff game on Saturday afternoon and the Mavericks persevered down the stretch for an exhausting 105-101 victory at American Airlines Center.
  And we mean exhausting for the fans who had to withstand a slew of
  
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• Daniel Gafford wants Mavs’ fans to always keep the faith

  11-05-2024 00:46 via mavs.com
  
  That same path the Dallas Mavericks traveled when they knocked off the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the playoffs seems to be taking shape here in the second round of the playoffs against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
  The Mavs lost Game 1 on the road against the Clippers, then won Game 2 on the road against the Clippers. The Mavs lost Game 1 on the road against the Thunder, then won Game 2 on the road against the Thunder.
  From the Mavs’ perspective, the morale of the story is the
  
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• Game 3 preview: learning from the past is crucial in swing games

  10-05-2024 23:30 via mavs.com
  
  The Mavericks in these playoffs have been outstanding in the area of learning from mistakes.
  Look no further than the fact that they have not lost consecutive games yet in this postseason.
  Now, as they prepare for Games 3 and 4 at American Airlines Center against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference semifinals, there’s no better time to continue their learning process.
  Josh Green knows as much. As he pulled on a nice vest over his white dress shirt in the postgame locker roo
  
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• ‘GuitarSlayer’ Justin Lyons: Meet the man reinventing Mavericks’ iconic intro

  10-05-2024 20:00 via mavs.com
  
  When he was growing up in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Justin Lyons wasn’t yet known as “GuitarSlayer.”
  That would come later when his musical chops went global.
  But he was an athlete. A good one, too. He particularly excelled at basketball, enough to chase the dream.
  “I was a Mavs fan, a sports fan, because I played basketball all the way to college,” Lyons said. “I thought I was going to be on the court, be a Dallas Mav.”
  As it turns out, his dream ca
  
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• Hardaway joins playoff party with major Game 2 contribution

  10-05-2024 07:59 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – The Mavericks lost one of their X-factors in this series when Maxi Kleber went down with a separated shoulder in the first round of the playoffs.
  Maybe, just maybe, another X-factor stepped up Thursday night.
  Tim Hardaway Jr. supplied strong energy and even better scoring off the bench and helped ignite the Mavericks to a 119-110 victory in Game 2 to knot the Western Conference semifinals against Oklahoma City at a win apiece.
  The Mavericks have been a strength-in-numbers t
  
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• Dončić Washington lead Mavs to 119-110 win over OKC

  10-05-2024 07:04 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – Luka Dončić and P.J. Washington scored 29 points apiece and the Dallas Mavericks squared their best-of-seven Western Conference first-round playoff series against the Oklahoma City Thunder at 1-1 with a gritty 119-110 victory on Thursday night at the Paycom Center.
  The series now shifts to American Airlines Center in Dallas for Games 3 and 4 starting Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and finishing up on Monday at 8:30 p.m. before returning back to OKC on Wednesday for Game 5.
  
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• Kidd great at making adjustments following a Game 1 loss

  09-05-2024 00:14 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – Are the Dallas Mavericks flustered because they dropped Game 1 of their best-of-seven Western Conference semifinals series against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday, 117-95? Sure, they are.
  But not to the point where they’re ready to pack their bags and call it a season.
  “If it was just (a) one-game (series), we would be out,” coach Jason Kidd said following Wednesday’s practice at the Paycom Center. “It’s a (seven-game) series.
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• Hardaway ‘grateful’ to be back for a piece of the action

  08-05-2024 22:59 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – Tim Hardaway Jr. scored just two points in 17 minutes on Tuesday in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.
  Yet, after Wednesday’s workout, the Mavericks’ shooting guard was all smiles.
  The last time the Mavericks went beyond the first round of the playoffs, Hardaway was a bystander, dealing with a broken bone in his left foot.
  When he went down after playing just six minutes in Game 2 of the first-round series against the Los Angeles Clippers with a sprain
  
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• OKC ‘D’ was a puzzle Mavericks could not solve in Game 1

  08-05-2024 20:23 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – If the Mavericks are going to have to knot this Western Conference semifinals at a win apiece on Thursday, they’re going to have to learn a lot from what ended up being a blowout loss in Game 1.
  At the top of the priority list is creating better shots. You can’t shoot 34 percent in the second half and expect to win a road playoff game.
  Was the OKC defense at least partly responsible? You bet.
  But the Mavericks didn’t help their own cause. They didn’t
  
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• Daniel Gafford miffed at shots that he missed

  08-05-2024 08:42 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – Daniel Gafford prides himself on being as close to perfection as humanly possible.
  After all, the Dallas Mavericks’ center led the NBA in field goal shooting this season at 74 percent. And at one stage this season, Gafford converted 33 consecutive shots – two shy of the NBA record established by the great Wilt Chamberlain.
  So, when Gafford glanced at the stat sheet from Tuesday’s 117-95 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder at Paycom Center, he was none too pl
  
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• Mavericks stumble in opener, fall into familiar territory

  08-05-2024 06:03 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – Well, at least this is familiar territory for the Mavericks.
  They trail the Western Conference semifinals 1-0 after the youthful energy of the Oklahoma City Thunder showed itself and the Mavericks’ shooting didn’t. They proceeded to lose the opener of this best-of-seven set 117-95 Tuesday night at Paycom Center.
  Not to worry. The Mavericks have been here before.
  A lot.
  They haven’t won Game 1 of a playoff series in their last two postseason runs. They went
  
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• Mavericks stumble in opener, fall into a hole they know all too well

  08-05-2024 06:03 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – Well, at least the Mavericks are in familiar territory.
  They trail the Western Conference semifinals 1-0 after the youthful energy of the Oklahoma City Thunder showed itself and the Mavericks’ shooting didn’t. They proceeded to lose the opener of this best-of-seven set 117-95 Tuesday night at Paycom Center.
  Not to worry. The Mavericks have been here before.
  A lot.
  They haven’t won Game 1 of a playoff series in their last two postseason runs. They went down
  
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• Game 1 preview: Mavs need energy, experience against youthful Thunder

  07-05-2024 03:25 via mavs.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY – Anybody who’s been watching the NBA for any length of time knows that the key for the Mavericks in the conference semifinals against Oklahoma City can be summed up in one word.
  Energy.
  The Mavericks no longer are the young team going against the wily graybeards like they were in the first round against the Los Angeles Clippers.
  Now they are the grizzled veterans, comparatively speaking to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
  So the Mavericks need to channel their inner Energize
  
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• Mavs sign Jason Kidd to multi-year contract extension

  06-05-2024 16:58 via mavs.com
  
  The Dallas Mavericks signed coach Jason Kidd to a multi-year contract extension on Monday.
  Kidd is currently in his third season coaching the Mavs and has led them to a 140-106 record in the regular season, and a 13-11 record in the playoffs. In Kidd’s first season with the Mavs two years ago, he guided them to a 52-30 record and a berth in the Western Conference Finals.
  Behind Kidd, the Mavs won the Southwest Division title this season for just the fifth time in franchise history with a 5
  
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• Kidd sees similarities between Thunder of 2011 and today

  06-05-2024 02:38 via mavs.com
  
  For Jason Kidd and his NBA journey against the Oklahoma City Thunder, this is a bit of a déjà vu scenario.
  In 2011 when Kidd was the starting point guard for the Dallas Mavericks, he faced a Thunder squad in the Western Conference Finals that featured a group of 22-year olds named Kevin Durant, James Harden and Russell Westbrook. The Mavs won that series in five games, then went on to beat the Miami Heat in six games to capture their lone NBA title.
  This time around, the Mavs will
  
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• Kidd on similarities between OKC Thunder in 2011 to today

  06-05-2024 02:38 via mavs.com
  
  For Jason Kidd and his NBA journey against the Oklahoma City Thunder, this is a bit of a déjà vu scenario.
  Back in 2011 when Kidd was the starting point guard for the Dallas Mavericks, he faced a Thunder squad in the Western Conference Finals that featured a group of 22-year olds named Kevin Durant, James Harden and Russell Westbrook. The Mavs won that series in five games, then went on to beat the Miami Heat in six games while capturing their lone NBA title.
  This time around, the
  
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• Right place, right time has Irving smiling a lot more these days

  06-05-2024 02:37 via mavs.com
  
  Kyrie Irving is really no different than regular folks, other than the paranormal handles, next-level shooting and apparent immunity to any pressure situation.
  There was a time when he wasn’t as mature as he is now, just like almost all of us. And Irving now has the advantage of perspective when he looks at his past. It’s been a journey that has led him here, to the Mavericks, where the people who know him best say has helped the superstar guard smile a lot more.
  As coach Jason Kidd
  
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• Kleber will miss series vs. OKC with shoulder injury

  05-05-2024 22:38 via mavs.com
  
  An MRI performed on Dallas Mavericks center/forward Maxi Kleber revealed that he has a right shoulder AC joint separation and thus will miss the Western Conference semifinal series against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
  The Mavs announced Sunday that Kleber will be re-evaluated in three weeks.
  Kleber suffered the injury Friday with 11:15 remaining in the second quarter of the Mavs’ 114-101 close-out Game 6 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. Kleber was dribbling the basketball and proceeded
  
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• Kleber will miss series against OKC with shoulder injury

  05-05-2024 22:38 via mavs.com
  
  An MRI performed on Dallas Mavericks center/forward Maxi Kleber revealed that he has a right shoulder AC joint separation and will miss the Western Conference semifinal series against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
  The Mavs announced Sunday that Kleber will be re-evaluated in three weeks.
  Kleber suffered the injury Friday with 11:15 remaining in the second quarter of the Mavs’ 114-101 close-out Game 6 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. Kleber was dribbling down the court and did a near som
  
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• The takeaways: Kyrie Irving, again, showed how special he is

  04-05-2024 21:55 via mavs.com
  
  By now, opponents should know if they give Kyrie Irving an inch, the Dallas Mavericks’ superstar guard will take the proverbial mile.
  The Los Angles Clippers discovered that the hard way Friday night when Irving tallied 28 of his 30 points in the second half in steering the Mavs to a 114-101 triumph in Game 6 of the first round of the Western Conference best-of-seven playoff series. The heroics by Irving clinched this series for the Mavs, 4-2, and they now move on to play the Oklahoma City
  
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• Young, hungry Thunder worthy of newfound status

  04-05-2024 20:45 via mavs.com
  
  The Oklahoma City Thunder are the Bad Bunny of the NBA.
  Still young and relatively fresh on the scene, but already so grown-up and accomplished that the world knows their name.
  And these Thunderdudes are some bad, bad bunnies.
  They won the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference playoffs for a reason. They dispatched New Orleans in the first round in a sweep, although that was with the Pelicans missing their best player, Zion Williamson.
  Still, the Thunder are a youthful force. Of the 421 points th
  
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