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Mavericks hire Masai Ujiri as team president, alternative governor
Six months after the tumultuous tenure of Nico Harrison ended with a rare mid-season firing of an executive, it appears the Dallas Mavericks have found their replacement. ESPN reported Monday that the Mavericks have hired former Toronto Raptors and Denver Nuggets executive Masai Ujiri to be Dallas’ new team president and alternate governor. The Dallas […]
Grading the Mavericks: Cooper Flagg shines, Nico Harrison flames out in a wild 2026 season
The Mavericks ended the year 26-56, a 12th-place finish in the West. They split their final two games with a loss to San Antonio (139-120) and a win at home against Chicago (149-128). Cooper Flagg led the team in scoring this year with 21 points per game. In fact, he led the team in total […]
Naji Marshall was a fan-favorite in an oversized role for the struggling Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks had CVS receipt full of problems throughout the 2025-26 season. Naji Marshall wasn’t one of them. Sure, his 3-point shooting in his first two years with the Mavericks (27.5%, 29.1%) hasn’t been what it was in 2023-24 (38.7%), his final year with the New Orleans Pelicans. And sure, his on-ball defense has […]
MMBets: the Western Conference second round could get out of hand
While the Eastern Conference gave us three game sevens in round one, the West gave us no such drama. Oklahoma City and San Antonio moved on with ease, and Los Angeles and Minnesota won their game sixes by sizeable margins. Unfortunately for the viewer, the Lakers and Timberwolves are missing their best players as they […]
Ryan Nembhard exceeded expectations
When I previewed Ryan Nembhard back in October, the framing was modest by design. Pass-first guard. Two-way deal. Floor general in the margins. Best case: define his lane so clearly that the Mavericks couldn’t justify cycling him out of the roster. Worst case: blend into the background. Six months later, he set the franchise’s rookie […]
Wings vs. Fever Recap: Paige Bueckers goes off, Azzi Fudd gets feet wet in 95-80 win at Indiana
The only hole to be poked in Paige Bueckers’ game, following a rookie season that saw her grab a second-team All WNBA honors and the WNBA Rookie of the Year award after being selected first overall in the 2025 draft, was her 3-point shooting. She shot just 33.1% from beyond the arc in her rookie […]
MMB Discussion: Coin flips, GM hired, and the wait to the NBA Lottery, Part 2
Y’all are chatty! The previous thread accrued over 1,000 comments in 11 days. Well done, we’re glad you’re here. Here’s the old thread in case you need to carry over. Since the posting of the last thread, Dallas has lost the coinflip (firmly sitting in eight now) and Cooper Flagg has won Rookie of the […]
Smart moves and LeBron l’expérience turned Lakers vet duo into a perfect storm. But can they close the series?
They didn’t have it last night in game five. The vet duo of LeBron James and Marcus Smart from the Los Angeles Lakers failed to regain the lead and outsmart the Houston Rockets Wednesday. Rockets’ Reed Sheppard took a page out of their book and turned the table on the Lakers in clutch time. But […]
Dereck Lively’s lost season
Be honest wth me: do you remember Dereck Lively II playing a single game? I don’t. Or I didn’t. Not until I started looking way back into the season. In my memory, Lively played several games into January 2025, hurt his ankle/foot, and we haven’t seen him since. That, of course, is not true. He […]
The NBA’s latest draft lottery proposal is a step in the right direction
For the last 41 seasons, the NBA has conducted a draft lottery to determine which non-playoff team will receive the No. 1 overall pick. From 1985 to 1989, all non-playoff teams had the same odds to win the top pick, but in 1990, the league adopted a weighted draft lottery where the worse your record […]
NBA Draft Watch: Do the Mavericks have to draft a guard in the Lottery?
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to come to the conclusion that the Dallas Mavericks desperately need guard help. Cooper Flagg was thrusted into the role early, which obviously led to a ton of early struggles. While development was certainly had, playing point is never going to be the way to best optimize the newest […]
Klay Thompson gave the Mavericks the professionalism they needed
Klay Thompson’s time in Dallas certainly has not played out the way he envisioned. His dreams of playing alongside Luka Doncic were cut down far too soon on Christmas of 2024, and yet, here, in the spring of 2026, Thompson remains a Maverick. Not a peep was heard from Thompson this season about his role […]
Marvin Bagley III reinvented himself with the Mavericks — but what’s his future in Dallas?
When Marvin Bagley III came to Dallas from in the trade that sent Anthony Davis to the Washington Wizards as the 2025-26 NBA Trade Deadline approached, he represented pure salary cap relief. He was a letdown second overall draft pick who came off the books when the season was over. He was a key part […]
Shoutout to who now!?
The Dallas Mavericks capped off a rough season with a silver lining, as rookie phenom Cooper Flagg was named 2025-2026 NBA Rookie of the Year Monday night. In what was a polarizing race between he and Charlotte Hornets’ Kon Knueppel, we saw one of the most historic rookie campaigns from the former, pitted against one […]
Cooper Flagg wins NBA 2025-26 Rookie of the Year
The NBA announced on Monday night that Dallas Mavericks do-everything forward Rookie of the Year for the 2025-26 season. Flagg averaged 21.0 points, 6.7 rebounds, 4.5 assists, 1.2 steals, 0.9 blocks, and 33.5 minutes per game in 70 games in 2025-26. He started every single game in his rookie campaign. Flagg joins former Maverick Luka […]
Cooper Flagg is poised for Superstardom
When the Dallas Mavericks selected Cooper Flagg last June, the franchise was saved, but there were still questions about Flagg’s upside. Those questions were answered, as Flagg had one of the best scoring seasons for a teenager ever, and left no doubt about his future. Season Review Flagg’s season started off poorly, as he averaged […]
Three takeaways from the first week of the NBA playoffs
The NBA first round is well underway, and while the Mavericks aren’t participating, there are still lessons to be learned. As the Mavericks approach a pivotal offseason, they should focus on the trends that emerged during the playoffs. Certain types of players thrive within the heightened physicality and focus of the playoffs, while others fail. […]
Nikola Jokic was poked 13 times in 7 seconds. The NBA has a problem
Nikola Jokic, three-time NBA MVP and in the running for yet another one this year, is not one to shy away from physicality. At 6’11, 284 lbs, the Denver Nuggets big man is hard to contain under the basket, but he has another asset that opponents fear more: His vision and playmaking. So in order […]
Dirk Nowitzki: FIBA Hall of Famer – Class of 2026
The Dallas Mavericks season came to an end in a resounding win over the Bulls last week, quieting things down in terms of team-related news for a few days. As he has always done, Dallas’ adopted son, Dirk Nowitzki, comes through yet again to give us some feel-good news to report on. Today, April 21st, […]
The Mavericks Flipped Another Coin
The Dallas Mavericks didn’t end up here by accident. This wasn’t just bad luck or one bad stretch. This was a season defined by hesitation. They didn’t fully commit to competing, but they also didn’t fully commit to losing until it was too late. The result was a middle ground that, in the NBA, is […]
The Mavericks want to stay in Downtown Dallas, but should City Hall be sacrificed?
The season from hell is over. I could not be more relieved, as watching my favourite team organically tank their way to oblivion was getting more and more frustrating with every game. Amid the blissful end of the season and the chaos of the Cooper Flagg-Kon Kneuppel Rookie of the Year debate, you might be […]
MMB Discussion: Coin flips, GM hired, and the wait to the NBA Lottery
I see that our previous lounge passed 1,000 comments recently and while I try to get to these every month, the things start to break around 500 comments. Someone sass me if I don’t get these up! Here’s that lounge thread (renamed moving forward per my editor) in case you need to carry over a […]
Best Moment from the 2025-26 Dallas Mavericks season
Today’s prompt for the staff was easy: what’s your favorite moment from the season? Bryan: December 23, 2025. Denver comes to town on national tv as the Mavs are at the peak of annoying me by going on that brief winning streak earlier in the month, just to go right back to being a dreadful […]
Azzi Fudd’s no-answer stirs debate online as fans, media clash over potential relationship questions
Azzi Fudd sat at her press conference Thursday between Dallas Wings general manager Curt Miller and new head coach Jose Fernandez to talk about the No. 1 overall pick’s arrival to Dallas. Yet as the press conference began, it quickly became clear the focus was on last year’s No. 1 pick, Paige Bueckers. Bueckers spoke […]
Dallas Mavericks rookie Flagg is 9th in NBA jersey sales
On Monday, the NBA released the top-selling jerseys from the 2025-26 regular season. While the list of course features many mainstays, popular players like Steph Curry and LeBron James, Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg appeared on the list with the ninth-best-selling jersey. This news came as a bit of a surprise to me, at least. […]
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