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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 — 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 — 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...

Bleacher Report ranked Cooper Flagg as the NBA’s best 19-year-old entering the 2026-27 season after the Dallas Mavericks star averaged 24.7 points per game over the closing stretch of his rookie year.

LOS ANGELES —Dwight Powell remains the most significant free-agent big man available to the Los Angeles Lakers, according to California Post reporter Khobi Price, a day after Los Angeles lost Jonathan Kuminga to the Minnesota Timberwolves on a two-year deal. Powell celebrated his 35th birthday in July and is currently...

DALLAS — Expectations may not be very high for the Dallas Mavericks going into the 2026-27 season, but 2016 NBA champion Richard Jefferson isn't totally writing them off when it comes to the Western Conference postseason picture. Jefferson and his co-stars on the "Road Trippin' Show" recently made some early...

MANILA — Former Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd kept LeBron James, benched Luka Dončić, and cut Cooper Flagg when asked to sort the three in a start, bench, cut game during an interview with ALL-STAR Magazine released Thursday. Kidd wouldn't answer until he knew which James was on the table....

MANILA — Former Dallas Mavericks coach Jason Kidd named LeBron James as the career comparison for Cooper Flagg during an interview with ALL-STAR Magazine released Thursday. Kidd coached Flagg for one season in Dallas. He also coached Luka Dončić for three and a half seasons before the February 2025 trade...