The Mavericks gave him and his agent a chance to opt in or opt out of a possible second season with the Mavericks at $ 2. 16 m. As of June 30, George decided to opt out of a second season with the Mavericks but eventually, with no other choices, re-signed on July 9 to a $ 2. 5 million deal.

The Miami Heat, led by their star shooting guard, Dwyane Wade, and Shaquille O ' Neal, who had been traded from the Lakers during the 2004 summer, won the series over the Dallas Mavericks in 6 after losing the first two games.

In the playoffs, the Spurs defeated the Suns, Lakers and Mavericks en route to facing the New Jersey Nets in the NBA Finals.

On January 13, 2010, the Lakers became the first team in NBA history to win 3, 000 regular season games by defeating the Dallas Mavericks 100 – 95.

Before the start of the shortened 2011 – 12 season, the Lakers traded Lamar Odom to the Dallas Mavericks after Odom requested to be traded.

In the 2001 NBA Playoffs, the Spurs eliminated the Timberwolves 3 – 1, defeated the Dallas Mavericks 4 – 1, but then bowed out against the Lakers led by superstars Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant, losing in four straight games.

Currently, there are only 13 players with D-League experience who won an NBA title: Tremaine Fowlkes with the Detroit Pistons in 2003 – 04 ; Devin Brown and Mike Wilks with the San Antonio Spurs in 2004 – 05 ; Earl Barron and Dorell Wright with the Miami Heat in 2005 – 06 ; James White with the San Antonio Spurs in 2006 – 07 ; Gabe Pruitt with the Boston Celtics in 2007 – 08 ; and, Sun Yue and Shannon Brown with the Los Angeles Lakers, Jordan Farmar, Josh Powell in 2008 – 09, and 2009-10, and most recently Jose Juan Barea, Rodrigue Beaubois, Ian Mahinmi, Dominique Jones with the Dallas Mavericks in 2010-2011, and Dexter Pittman with the Miami Heat in 2011-2012.

On December 11, 2011, Odom was traded to the Dallas Mavericks for a first-round draft pick and an $ 8. 9 million trade exception after NBA commissioner David Stern vetoed a proposed three-team trade with the New Orleans Hornets involving Odom that would have sent him to the Hornets, Chris Paul to the Lakers, and Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets.

Derek Ricardo Harper ( born October 13, 1961 in Elberton, Georgia ) is a retired American professional basketball player from the University of Illinois, who spent 16 seasons as a point guard in the National Basketball Association with the Dallas Mavericks, New York Knicks, Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers.

In a 13-year NBA career, Van Exel played for the San Antonio Spurs, Portland Trail Blazers, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets and Los Angeles Lakers.

This tied the biggest margin in NBA playoff history The Nuggets beat the Mavericks in 5 games during the semifinals, then went on to lose to the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers in 6 games, losing Game 6 by 27.

The Lakers played the Chicago Bulls, while the Heat played the Dallas Mavericks in a rematch of the 2011 NBA Finals ; both the Bulls and Mavericks made their ABC Christmas Day debuts.

In the Lakers ' second-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, Bynum was ejected in the final game of the Mavericks ' four-game sweep for a flagrant foul on J. J. Barea moments after teammate Lamar Odom was ejected for fouling Dirk Nowitzki.

He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks and Miami Heat.

While Aguirre's time in Dallas was full of high-scoring efforts and playoff visits, the Mavericks were postseason underachievers ( their only Western Conference Finals visit was the 1988 loss to the Lakers ), and Aguirre had repeated conflicts with coach Dick Motta and players like Rolando Blackman, Derek Harper and James Donaldson.

As a small forward, he played most notably for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns, later finishing his NBA career with the Dallas Mavericks, Detroit Pistons and Miami Heat.

With every team in the league now gunning for them, the Lakers still found a way to win, taking their seventh consecutive Pacific Division title, and subsequently meeting Isiah Thomas and the physical Detroit Pistons in the 1988 NBA Finals, even after going the distance against the Utah Jazz and the Dallas Mavericks in the second round and Conference Finals, respectively.

To the surprise of many fans, the Lakers started the season strongly with key victories over teams like the Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks, and San Antonio Spurs.

However, the Dallas Mavericks swept the Lakers and ended Phil Jackson's career with a 36 point blowout in Game 4.

Pavlovic started his first game for the Mavs on the last day of his contract, scoring 11 points in the Mavericks 109-100 win over the Lakers.

But four of those games were decided by four points or less, and Dallas won half of those, leaving Mavericks fans room to hope that they could finally top the Lakers in the following season.

These moves proved successful, because after dropping the season opener to the Wizards, the Mavericks went on to beat many contenders such as the Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, and the Phoenix Suns which was something that the Mavericks had been unable to do the last two seasons.

It would not be faster than the V-8 Maverick and Chevrolet Opala, but it would beat everything else, including four-and six-cylinder Mavericks and some Dodge Chargers that partook of the events.

Although they finished January with 10 wins and 5 losses, they had already lost to the defending Champions San Antonio Spurs twice, twice to the Phoenix Suns, and in a nationally televised broadcast lost by 36 points to their eventual opponent in the 2006 NBA Finals the Dallas Mavericks.

After taking a 2-1 series lead, they would lose the final three games to the Mavericks.

In February 1989, the team managed to make a trade that would eventually pay off, as they traded veteran center Herb Williams to the Dallas Mavericks for future NBA 6th Man-of-the Year Detlef Schrempf.

Once again, Minnesota lost in the first round of the playoffs where they were swept by the Dallas Mavericks in three straight games.

Once again, the Spurs would get challenged within their own division by the Dallas Mavericks as they held the two best records in the Western Conference all season, battling for first place.

After regaining control of the series with a 109 – 98 win in Game 5, the Spurs won the series in six games as they won the finale 105 – 83 to set up another second round " Lone-Star Showdown " with the Mavericks.

After their disappointing defeat at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks, the Spurs entered the 2006 – 07 season refreshed with renewed determination, as they felt fatigue played a large role as they failed to win a second straight NBA Title.

The Clippers won 12 of their next 14 games, including road wins over the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Western-Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder, clinching only their fifth playoff birth since their 1976 conference semi-finals loss to the Boston Celtics ( the last time they made the playoffs as the Buffalo Braves ) before a dominating home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 16, 2012.

Shortly thereafter, Hasselhoff attended the May 26, 2006, Mavericks home playoff game where they faced the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Western Conference Finals.

The Mavericks and The ' N Betweens were on their way to separate gigs in Germany when they met on a ferry in 1965.

On June 28, 2007, the Dallas Mavericks announced they had signed Westphal as an assistant coach under head coach Avery Johnson.

They played their home games in the Reunion Arena, which they shared with the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association.

Nowitzki and Nash led the Mavericks from a 14-game winning streak to open the season all the way to the Western Conference Finals, where they lost to the eventual NBA champions, the San Antonio Spurs four games to two.

He spent nearly two seasons with Dallas playing a key sixth man role and helping the Mavericks win the 2006 Western Conference Championship where they eventually lost in the NBA Finals to the Miami Heat.

Sea-floor maps released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2007 revealed why Mavericks ' waves form where they do.

If the Clippers had finished with the 5th seed in the West, they would have had to face the Dallas Mavericks, who despite being the 4th seed had the second-best record in the conference, which would give the Mavericks home advantage.

On May 21, 1994 she married Robert " Bobby " Reynolds, a bass player for the country music group The Mavericks ; they divorced in 1999.

Bell returned in Game 4 to help the Suns tie the series at two games apiece, though they eventually fell to the Mavericks.

According to most reliable sources, the Mavericks padded the gate for most of the early-season games to make the attendance figures look more respectable than they actually were.

The Mavericks ' head coach Don Nelson initially planned on using their 2nd round pick to select Daniels ( whom they accidentally discovered while watching game tapes of Josh Howard ) but his son Donnie Nelson convinced him to trade the pick to Denver instead and assured his father that they would get him one way or the other.

As the calls started pouring in on Daniels ' agent's cellphone ( among the callers were Magic head coach Doc Rivers ), it was later revealed that they had a gentleman's agreement with the Mavericks that his client would sign with them in the event that he did not get drafted.