Two years ago, the Dallas Mavericks were on the precipice of the championship after advancing to the NBA Finals. But due to a series of inexplicable decisions, plus the ACL injury of Kyrie Irving, the momentum from their impressive run swiftly dissipated, leaving the Mavericks in disarray.
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.
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 Dallas Mavericks carried the #9 pick, the #30 pick and the #48 pick into the 2026 NBA Draft. They came out with Morez Johnson, Sergio De Larrea (after moving from #30 to #25) and Tobi Lawal, respectively.
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 Dallas Mavericks traded back into the late second round and selected Russian guard Vsevolod Ishchenko with the 56th pick of the 2026 NBA Draft. Dallas bought the pick from the Los Angeles Lakers, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania.
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).
The Dallas Mavericks are adding to their roster by selecting Virginia Tech forward Tobi Lawal with the 48th overall pick in the second round of the 2026 NBA Draft.
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.
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 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.
The first round of the 2026 NBA Draft has come and gone, and the Dallas Mavericks ended night one by taking Morez Johnson Jr. and Sergio de Larrea. They
After months of speculation, the first round of the 2026 NBA Draft came and went on Tuesday night. The Dallas Mavericks left with Michigan's Morez Johnson Jr., a hybrid power forward/center who played under the Mavericks' new coach, Dusty May.
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
In an interesting turn of events, Duke basketball coach Jon Scheyer has emerged as a candidate for an NBA job. Scheyer has been Duke's head coach since the 2022-23 season, owning a 124-25 record and a Final Four appearance.
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.