Dereck Lively II is the biggest wild card for the Dallas Mavericks. As talented as he is, he's rarely been healthy enough to make a difference. He was vital to the run to the NBA Finals in 2024, but he has played just 41 games since, including just 7 games last year before he needed season-ending foot surgery.
Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II is progressing in his injury recovery — but probably not at the rate most fans would hope for. Lively missed the final 65 games of the Mavericks’ 2025-26 season and only played in seven games total due to a lingering foot injury.
It has been over a month since the Dallas Mavericks let go of Jason Kidd as their head coach, as new team president Masai Ujiri decided it was best to clean house top to bottom.
The Dallas Mavericks had an eventful 2026 NBA Draft, making two trades, giving them a total of four new prospects to build around for the future. Two of them are international prospects: Spain's Sergio De Larrea and Russia's Vsevolod Ishchenko.
The NBA is truly a global league. As such, there have been historical impacts left on the game by players of all walks of life. Some of the game's all-time
The 2026 NBA Draft has now concluded, and the Dallas Mavericks have done nothing to solve their logjam in the frontcourt yet. In fact, they've only made the problem worse by drafting Morez Johnson Jr.
There are few in the NBA world who are as on fire right now as Masai Ujiri, the Dallas Mavericks’ new team president. Right before the 2026 NBA Draft, Ujiri took a massive swing at the Mavericks’ vacant head coach position.
The 2026 NBA Draft is now over, and the Dallas Mavericks have four new prospects to show for it. They had the first big surprise of the draft by taking Michigan's Morez Johnson Jr.
The Dallas Mavericks are continuing their new era by selecting Tobi Lawal with the 48th overall pick in the second round of the 2026 NBA Draft on Wednesday night.
If you thought the Dallas Mavericks were done in the 2026 NBA Draft, you thought wrong. The stuck with the 48th pick in the NBA Draft and took Tobi Lawal, a super athletic forward from Virginia Tech.
The Lakers and Mavericks have made a minor trade late in the second round of the draft, with Los Angeles agreeing to send the rights to No. 56 overall pick Vsevolod Ishchenko to Dallas, per Dan Woike of The Athletic (Twitter link).
In the NBA Draft, the first round is where teams look for players who could be stars or at least contribute right away. Then there's the second round, where the stakes are low and not much is expected.
The Dallas Mavericks had a busy first round of the 2026 NBA Draft on Tuesday night, taking Michigan forward Morez Johnson Jr. 9th overall, then maneuvering up to the 25th pick to select Spanish guard Sergio De Larrea.
The Dallas Mavericks are likely headed into a rebuild of sorts in the coming years as they try to erase the bad taste of the Luka Doncic trade. Luckily for the Mavericks, they have a pretty good building block on the roster already in Cooper Flagg, and if it were up to him he would spend his entire NBA career with the franchise.
The Dallas Mavericks made two picks in the first round of the NBA Draft, but it’s uncertain what one of their futures will hold in the lead. Sergio De Larrea was acquired by the Mavericks in a three-team trade with the Phoenix Suns and New York Knicks.
The Dallas Mavericks left the first round of the 2026 NBA Draft with two prospects: Michigan's Morez Johnson Jr. with the 9th pick, and, after some interesting trading at the end of the night, Spanish guard Sergio De Larrea.
The Los Angeles Lakers, New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns have officially finalized the complicated draft-night trade that shuffled several first-round picks and ultimately sent three prospects to new homes.
The Lakers, Knicks, Mavericks, and Suns have officially completed three separate draft-night deals as a single four-team trade, according to press releases from Dallas and Phoenix.
Following Luka Doncic‘s departure midway through the 2024-25 season, it is safe to say that the Dallas Mavericks fell apart. Given that they ended the 2025-26 season with a 26-56 record (12th in the West), it was abundantly clear that the franchise was due for a rebuild.
10:38 pm: De Larrea won’t stick with the Knicks after all. According to Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link), New York agreed to trade the Spanish guard to the Mavericks in exchange for the No.
The NBA Draft began without much drama, with the first picks going exactly as expected. But every draft has surprises, and here were the biggest of the night.
Kyrie Irving has not played since tearing the ACL in his left knee on March 3, 2025, an injury that cost him the rest of the 2024-25 season and the entire
The Mavericks are still looking for a head coach, and according to Marc Stein of The Stein Line, one name Dallas hoped might emerge as a serious candidate appears likely to stay put.
When members of the Cavaliers’ 2016 championship team gathered in Europe this week to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of one of the greatest moments in franchise history, one notable name was missing.
You can safely check Uncle Drew off the list of offseason trade candidates. The Dallas Mavericks have been indicating to teams that nine-time NBA All-Star guard Kyrie Irving is not available for trade, veteran NBA writer Marc Stein reported to Substack on Friday.