Dallas Mavericks roster, team stats, streak information, home vs. road splits, ticket links, recent and upcoming game details, and more. It began with the Dirk Nowitzki leading the team to a championship. San Antonio won the first game at home 87–85. On September 23, 2014, the Mavericks unveiled a new navy alternate uniform, featuring a depiction of the Dallas skyline in silver with white trim.
Nowitzki was so emotional after the game that he headed to the locker room before the game had concluded, and had to be coaxed back onto the floor for the NBA Championship trophy presentation. In the fourth quarter of game 2 with the Mavericks trailing 88–73, Dallas was desperate to avoid a 0–2 heading back home. Little was made during this series, as the Spurs won their first NBA championship only two years before. After the series shifted back to Dallas, the Mavericks lost in game 3, with Nowitzki narrowly missing the potential game-tying shot, by a score of 88–86. The Mavericks-Heat rivalry is a testament to when the two teams faced each other in the NBA finals on two separate occasions. … When combined with the 67 sold-out playoff games that occurred during that span, the The league was initially reluctant to expand to Dallas, given Texas had both the Spurs and In the Mavericks' debut game, taking place in the brand-new The 1981 NBA Draft brought three players who would become vital parts of the team. Catch all the action on FSSW starting at 7:30. Though Manu Ginóbili could have made a game-winning basket with five seconds on the clock, he committed an error, allowing the ball to bounce away from him with one second remaining.
Dallas finished with the fourth seed in the Western Conference playoffs, and in their first playoff trip, they defeated the Despite all the changes, the Mavs remained in contention. In Game 3, In the 2014 off-season, the Mavericks made several moves, the first of which was trading for Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton from the New York Knicks, sending Calderón, Dalembert, Shane Larkin, and Wayne Ellington as well as two-second-round draft picks, on June 26, 2014, right before the draft. The elimination led to an off-season facing many questions about the future construction of the team. The Spurs proceeded to avoid elimination by taking Game 5. First they came head to head in the Both teams saw success over the next few seasons and appeared in the playoffs multiple times, and would ultimately go on to have a rematch in the The Mavericks-Spurs rivalry is relatively new but very fierce. However, their season effectively ended when James Donaldson went down with a ruptured The team endured numerous changes in 1990, losing Sam Perkins to the Lakers via free agency and suffering injuries to practically their entire Buckner was fired after garnering the worst full-season record for a rookie head coach—a record that only lasted four years, until The addition of Jason Kidd infused the Mavericks with new life in The Mavericks' improvement was dramatic. On May 9, 2008, After getting off to 2–7 start, the Mavericks eventually found themselves with the sixth spot in the Western Conference playoff bracket for The Mavericks surprised many people by winning Game 1, 105–97 in San Antonio.Nowitzki's 44 points in Game 4 saved the Mavericks season, sending the series back to Denver for a Game 5, with the series in Denver's favor, 3–1. The 53-point margin for Dallas surpassed its 50-point win over the New York Knicks in January 2010.On April 28, 2015, the Mavericks were knocked out of the first round by their in state rivals, the Houston Rockets, in a 4–1 series loss. After yet another first round exit, the Mavericks began an unexpectedly early off-season. The first order of business for The 2010–11 campaign saw the Mavericks fly out of the gate, winning 24 out of their first 29 games.