The NBA Finals can be painful for fanbases whose teams are not participating. This year's festivities could be difficult for Dallas Mavericks fans to watch. Jalen Brunson. Who knew? When he was a Maverick, he was solid. In Brunson's last campaign with the squad, he averaged 16.3 points and 4.8...

The NBA offseason is almost here. There are only two teams in the postseason. Every other fanbase around the league is thinking about what their team should do this summer. Even the Oklahoma City Thunder has questions to answer. They were favorites to defend their 2024-25 NBA title heading into...

The Dallas Mavericks want a day-one contributor from the 2026 NBA draft. They also want someone with upside for the future. That's a difficult needle to thread. A high-floor, high-ceiling prospect tends to be picked earlier than ninth overall. If the Mavericks are going to find their guy, they can...

The Oklahoma City Thunder face the familiar challenge of keeping a championship roster together under tightening cap constraints, a situation that could push them to move quality players for financial relief. That opens a door for the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas has cap flexibility to work with. With Cooper Flagg on...

If an NBA team can't identify its most important player, it has a problem. That team won't have a clear understanding of how it's shaping its roster moving forward. Luckily, that's not an issue for the Dallas Mavericks. Cooper Flagg is the team's North Star. Every roster decision the Mavericks...

Every NBA team needs a direction. The Dallas Mavericks may have found theirs. The organization just hired Masai Ujiri as its team president. This is a big deal. Ujiri is not your average NBA executive. He has distinct preferences that can shape a team's identity. Specifically, Ujiri values length, size,...

The Dallas Mavericks do not have much draft capital to work with. That's the consequence of going all in on Luka Dončić and quickly pivoting. Landing Cooper Flagg did more than enough to soften the blow. Still, Dallas is in a comparable situation. They have a franchise player, but they don't...

The trade buzz around Giannis Antetokounmpo will not stop until he's traded. It simply will not. This is the best player to hit the rumor mill in a long time. Perhaps since James Harden was a Rocket? The Luka Dončić trade was monumental, but unsurprisingly, nobody saw it coming. By...

Klay Thompson did not sign up for this. When he joined the Dallas Mavericks, there was no question about their intentions. Luka Dončić was an in-prime MVP candidate. The Mavericks were positioned to compete for the NBA championship. Nico Harrison infamously had other plans. It all worked out, but nobody...

The Dallas Mavericks’ future is set. They’ve got something every NBA team either has or desperately wants: A franchise player. Cooper Flagg is the future of Mavericks basketball. Nobody could reasonably deny that. The question now isn’t whether Dallas has its centerpiece — it’s how the organization builds around him....