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Grant Afseth: Final: Kings 115, Mavs 100 Daniel Gafford: 20 PTS, 7 REB, 1 STL, 1 BLK Walter Clayton Jr.: 20 PTS, 1 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL Cooper Flagg: 17 PTS, 4 REB, 6 AST, 2 STL Darius Acuff Jr.: 25 PTS, 5 REB, 6 AST, 1 STL Malik Monk: 24 PTS, 1 REB, 7 AST, 1 BLK Zach LaVine: 23 PTS, 4 REB, 1 AST Dallas (4-3) faces San Antonio on Wednesday.
Rob Fodor, the Dallas Mavericks’ newest shooting coach, once went seven years without picking up a basketball. “I was done. Never gonna go back,” he told The Dallas Morning News.
Dallas ranked 29th in the NBA last season in 3-pointers made per game (11.0), 27th in 3-point attempts (31.9) and 26th in 3-point percentage (34.4%). The early returns on are in, despite a small sample size. Through six games, Dallas is tied for seventh in total 3-pointers made (78), 16th in 3-point percentage (34.8%) and tied for 17th 3-pointers per game (13.0). The Mavericks head coach hired Fodor as a consultant for Michigan during last year’s NCAA championship run. The two coaches share connections across the basketball world, including May’s son, Jack, who served as a video intern in Miami the last two years. The Heat also held training camp practices at Florida Atlantic, where May coached from 2018 to 2024. “He brings just a wisdom of the game of basketball and a different perspective because he’s an artist,” May said. “He’s a different thinker.”
In the five games Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg have played together, the Mavericks have a 4-1 record with wins over the Indiana Pacers, Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder and Rockets. Dallas has outscored its opponents by 12 points per 100 possessions in the 98 minutes they have shared the floor. “We are still growing,” Irving said. “We still have a level we want to get to — a higher level. We are going to continue to push each other. We obviously know the external chatter as well and the 15-year age gap and what we are going to accomplish and how we are going to mesh. I think we threw all that out the window and just really focused on what we can control, which is our effort and how we treat each other.”
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Will Guillory: Per Ime Udoka, Alperen Sengun is out tonight in Dallas with low back soreness. Marcus Smart is likely to return after missing the last few games with a left forearm strain.
Grant Afseth: Final: Mavs 121, Pacers 105 Kyrie Irving: 24 PTS, 1 REB, 3 AST, 1 STL, 1 BLK P.J. Washington: 20 PTS, 13 REB, 3 BLK Max Christie: 16 PTS, 4 REB, 4 AST, 1 STL Naji Marshall: 15 PTS, 4 REB, 6 AST, 3 STL Pascal Siakam: 23 PTS, 3 REB, 3 AST Tyrese Haliburton: 18 PTS,6 REB, 7 AST Andrew Nembhard: 16 PTS, 2 REB, 5 AST, 1 STL Dallas (1-1) hosts San Antonio on Saturday to end a back-to-back.
Spurs games on DAZN, for example, are available across Texas, except around Dallas and Houston, where Victor Wembanyama acolytes can instead use League Pass. In many places, a single team is blacked out on League Pass, but things can get more complicated, particularly in states without teams. In Warren, Arkansas, the Memphis Grizzlies, Oklahoma City Thunder and Dallas Mavericks all offer their local games, while those teams’ games are unavailable through League Pass. Across the state line in Monroe, Louisiana, it’s the New Orleans Pelicans, Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks who can plant their local TV flags. There are two regions where four teams compete, in parts of Oregon (Trail Blazers, Kings, Warriors and Jazz) and California (Lakers, Clippers, Warriors, Kings), according to analysis from online sports viewing guide EntitledSports, meaning those teams are not available through League Pass in those areas. A hypothetical NBA obsessive in Hanford, California, without cable or satellite TV, would need to spend more than $400 on local streaming services—in addition to accessing national TV games—to watch every NBA contest this season. A fan in Pullman, West Virginia, or New London, Connecticut, on the other hand, can watch every non-national game via NBA League Pass, no regional service needed.
Steve Nash: "I wanted to stay in Dallas my whole career and was offered a substantially less you know too much to turn down, you know, discrepancy. I felt like the castoff, like nobody wanted me, the unloved child in a way. And so to play them in the playoffs that year, there was some hot sauce on it. I think I hit a three, dribble down three, one of those games to win it. I can't remember what game it was, but because I felt like they discarded me, that was an important series for me, as much as I didn't like to admit it."
Stephen Curry: Not specifically about that short list of guys who played for one team. But I talked to Kobe years back, like the year after he retired. And it was more about the transition into exerting that creative energy into something else. Talked to Dirk, who still lives in Dallas, represents the organization, gets to come back. That connection as a player and now like the ambassador, whatever role he’s playing in the organization, how much he’s fulfilled by that. I’ve talked to Tom Brady just about longevity and playing. But I think the biggest thing is that there’s a mutual respect of all of us of knowing what it takes to carry the torch at that stage and that level for as long as we’ve been able to do it. And I feel that every single day.
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Will Guillory: Final: Rockets 128, Mavs 110 Durant 30 pts, 6 rebs Smith 30 pts, 5 rebs Sengun 23 pts, 10 rebs, 5 assts VanVleet 6 pts, 11 assts Despite a bit of a rocky finish, Houston dominates Dallas in the regular-season opener. KD and Jabari were fantastic all night. FVV and Smart did a great job controlling the offense. Statement win for the Rockets to begin the season.
Grant Afseth: Final: Rockets 128, Mavs 110 Cooper Flagg: 32 PTS, 5 REB, 2 AST, 3 STL, 1 BLK Marcus Sasser: 17 PTS, 2 REB, 1 AST, 1 STL Naji Marshall: 16 PTS, 2 REB, 6 AST, 1 STL Kyrie Irving: 15 PTS, 4 REB, 2 AST, 1 STL Kevin Durant: 30 PTS, 6 REB, 3 AST, 1 STL, 1 BLK Jabari Smith Jr.: 30 PTS, 5 REB, 1 AST, 2 STL Alperen Şengün: 23 PTS, 10 REB, 5 AST Dallas (0-1) faces Indiana on the road on Friday.
Marc Stein: Dallas currently has a full 15 standard contracts but also an open two-way roster spot after its recent release of John Poulakidas. I'm told Dusty May has a pre-existing relationship with Clayton after recruiting him in college. Clayton must clear waivers Wednesday at 5 PM ET.