Since entering the league, Miami has fielded squads that have made the playoffs 16 out of 24 seasons, capturing nine division titles, three Eastern Conference Championships, and two NBA Championships, defeating the Dallas Mavericks 4 – 2 in the 2006 NBA Finals and the Oklahoma City Thunder 4 – 1 in the 2012 NBA Finals.

Since their inaugural 1980 – 81 season, the Mavericks have won three division titles ( 1987, 2007, 2010 ), two conference championships ( 2006, 2011 ), and one NBA Championship ( 2011 ).

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.

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.

The Phoenix Suns have had four winners while the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks have had three.

On July 12, 2010, Haslem re-signed with the Heat, even though he would have received nearly $ 10 million more if he were to sign with the Dallas Mavericks or Denver Nuggets.

For example, the Tampa Bay Rays wore 1979-style baseball uniforms in 2012, and the Dallas Mavericks have used a 1970s-like basketball uniform since 2004, despite having been established in 1980.

This is a list of basketball players who have played in the NBA for the Dallas Mavericks.

* The Mavericks were the first team in California League history to have cheerleaders.

The Riverside, California area is the best location for the Mavericks, although the cities of Moreno Valley, California and Palm Springs, California have the best stadiums to meet league standards.

* The Dallas Mavericks have used midnight blue as one of their official team colors since the 2001-02 NBA season.

Davis then embarked on a long NBA career, highlighted by twelve seasons with the NBA's Dallas Mavericks where he became the first player to have his jersey number retired by the NBA franchise.

None of the award winners have won an NBA Championship as a player, however in 2011 Darrell Armstrong won the title as an assistant coach for the Dallas Mavericks.

Created with human-level intelligence and free will, some Reploids have a tendency towards destructive, criminal activity and are subsequently dubbed " Mavericks " by the government .< ref name =" megamess "> A military force called the " Maverick Hunters " is formed to halt or prevent such activity.

In February 2008, George received a lot of publicity when he refused to be included as part of a larger trade which would have sent Jason Kidd to the Mavericks and George to the New Jersey Nets.

In their history, the Mavericks have won one NBA championship, three division titles, and two conference championships.

This allowed the Mavericks to have the steady hand at center that had been lacking throughout the franchise's first five years.

On the year, the Mavericks went 67-12 against the rest of the league and 0-3 against Golden State, giving credibility to Russell's belief that the Warriors ' win shouldn't have surprised NBA fans.

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.

The Pistons then won Game 5 in The Palace of Auburn Hills, but the Heat answered by winning Game 6 and advanced to their first NBA Finals in franchise history against Dirk Nowitzki's Dallas Mavericks, who were also in their first NBA Finals.

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.

The Mavericks came back to win Game 2 to tie the series at a game apiece, but the Warriors won both Game 3 and Game 4, with a huge lift from the Warriors ' home crowd at the Oracle Arena.

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.

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.

The Mavericks suffered, however, when Stackhouse was suspended for Game 5 for a flagrant foul on Shaquille O ' Neal, and the Heat eventually won the series 4 – 2.

He is currently an assistant coach for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, who won the championship in the 2010 – 11 season.

On June 20, 2006, he won his first NBA Championship, contributing 14 points and 11 rebounds in the final game of the series against the Dallas Mavericks

Marion joined the Dallas Mavericks in 2009 and was the team's starting small forward when the Mavericks won the NBA Championship in June, 2011.

He won the first championship of his career in the 2010 – 2011 season when the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat 4 – 2 in the 2011 NBA Finals.

They won in the first round, upsetting the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks, but lost in the second round to the Utah Jazz.

The Hornets won their first round series against the Dallas Mavericks, posting a 4 – 1 record for the series.

The two won an NBA title together in 1999, and Johnson, later the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks and now of the Brooklyn Nets, credited Popovich for being his biggest coaching influence.

During the 2009-10 NBA season the Mavericks won a division title.

The playoffs started the next weekend, with the last four teams playing a double elimination tournament at the home of Southeast Texas Mavericks, who won their second ABA title two games to none over the Gulf Coast Flash.

Dallas went on to win the game 105 – 95 and Mahinmi won his first NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks won 91-86.

Aguirre played from 1981 – 1994 and won two championships with the Detroit Pistons after being sent to Detroit from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Adrian Dantley.

With the condensed 2011-12 NBA season due to the lockout, the Mavericks were unable to win 50 games, thus ending their 11 consecutive season with 50 or more wins.

The Mavericks won more than 50 games each year.

A fourth level, Bush Mavericks, was used to identify fundraisers under 40 years of age who bundled more than $ 50, 000.

Also in the early ' 80s, the NBA added one more expansion franchise, the Dallas Mavericks, bringing the total to 23 teams.

Bradley played 7 more seasons in the league, remaining with the Mavericks until his retirement in 2005.

With Nash directing the team's offense, Nowitzki and Finley playing at their best, and the acquisition of All-Star Juwan Howard complementing the high-scoring trio, the Mavericks earned a playoff berth for the first time in more than a decade.

A more warts and all account of Ritchie's life appeared in ' Flawed Genius ; Scottish Football's Self Destructive Mavericks ' ( Birlinn 2009 ).

Mark Cuban, Internet billionaire, owner of the NBA ’ s Dallas Mavericks and the HDNet networks, purchased 120, 000 more Rentrak shares on Aug. 22, 2011 and holds an 8. 7 percent ownership stake in the company as of Sept. 22, 2011.

ABA commissioner George Mikan was concerned enough about the situation in Houston that he sent the Mavericks several players in hopes of making them more attractive to fans.

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.

On November 29, 2010, High Desert Mavericks were sold to Main Street Baseball after more than a year on the open market.

According to a 1999 story in The Miami Herald, the brothers were originally called Pretty Rickie & The Maverix, until the country group the Mavericks objected, and the brothers decided ' y ' endings are " more masculine " than ' i. e. '.

After two more seasons with the Bullets, he became the first coach of the Dallas Mavericks, whom he led to a 55-27 record in 1986 – 87. Motta also served with the Sacramento Kings and Denver Nuggets before retiring in 1997.

George signed a two-year $ 4. 2 million contract with the Mavericks as a free agent in August 2006 and as the season continued he gained coach Avery Johnson's trust and became more integral to the Mavericks ' gameplan.

The Mavericks gave the Lakers everything they could handle, but in the end the more experienced Lakers prevailed, defeating Dallas in seven games on the way to eventually winning their second consecutive NBA Championship.

Many analysts viewed this as a beneficial trade for the Mavericks, being that it countered their age issues, while simultaneously providing them with more depth on the bench.