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DALLAS — Mark Cuban said college football and basketball roster management has become a tougher job than running an NBA roster. His example was Indiana, which won a national championship without building its team around a collection of five-star recruits. Von Miller responded by going back to Texas A&M's 2022...

DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki said Monday that he has followed Santi Aldama for years and is looking forward to seeing him with the Dallas Mavericks, in a phone interview with Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. Nowitzki views the fit around Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg as the larger...

DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks are targeting Nov. 18 for a tribute to former coach and general manager Don Nelson, Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News reported Thursday. For now, Nov. 18 is the tentative date. The Mavericks have yet to announce the tribute or spell out publicly what...

DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki said Monday that Zaccharie Risacher still has room to grow into what the Dallas Mavericks traded for, in a phone interview with Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. Nowitzki said president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri has made a lot of changes in Dallas and...

DALLAS — Von Miller said he has a Dirk Nowitzki tattoo on his back and has been a Dallas Mavericks fan his entire life, telling Mark Cuban that the only thing that could improve on signing with the Dallas Cowboys would be signing with the Mavericks. Miller made the comments...

DALLAS — Mark Cuban said he looked at buying an NFL team and talked with people about the Buffalo Bills when the franchise was for sale, but decided the emotional toll of ownership ruled it out, and that the same reasoning is why he never pursued a WNBA team. Cuban...

DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki said Monday that the Dallas Mavericks have to build a roster that functions around Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg, in a phone interview with Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. Nowitzki's read on the roster is that Dallas is rebuilding around Flagg, who won Rookie...

DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki backed the Dallas Mavericks' decision to extend Naji Marshall on Monday, in a phone interview with Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. Nowitzki's read on the roster starts with the mix around Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg, two scorers who will have the ball in...

DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki said Monday that the Dallas Mavericks are building the roster around Cooper Flagg and that the largest open question in Dallas is the health of center Dereck Lively II. He made the comments in a phone interview with Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. Flagg...

DALLAS — Dirk Nowitzki spent part of Monday discussing the Dallas Mavericks' new leadership structure in a phone interview with Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. Dallas brought in Masai Ujiri as president of basketball operations in May. About two weeks later, the Mavericks moved on from Jason Kidd...