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.

The Mavericks were down three with a few seconds left after a pair of missed free-throws by Wade.

Despite Nowitzki's MVP showing, the Mavericks were upset by their former coach Don Nelson and the 8th seeded Golden State Warriors in the 2007 NBA Playoffs.

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.

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

However, in overtime it was not meant to be as the Mavericks were on fire, scoring 15 points to win the game 119 – 111.

While the Spurs were bouncing the Nuggets, the Mavericks, who had an NBA best 67 – 15 record in the regular season, were unraveling, losing to the Golden State Warriors in six games.

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

By 1998, the Dallas Mavericks, then owned by H. Ross Perot, Jr., and the Dallas Stars were indicating their desire for a new facility to replace the dated Reunion Arena.

The Spirits ( who took their name from the Atlantic Ocean-crossing plane flown by Charles Lindbergh ) were the third incarnation of a franchise that was once known as the Houston Mavericks and later the Carolina Cougars.

For the 2012 season, the Mönchengladbach Mavericks, runners-up in the northern division in 2011, were refused a licence, leaving an extra spot in the league which has been offered to the Lübeck Cougars.

The 2007 – 08 Mavericks were 51 – 31 under coach Avery Johnson and lost in the first round of the 2008 NBA Playoffs to the New Orleans Hornets four games to one.

Although the Dallas Mavericks, Denver Nuggets and Phoenix Suns were interested in his services, he was strongly linked with a poised move to the Boston Celtics and was expected to be in Boston once he cleared waivers.

The 2011 NBA Finals were a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals, pitting the Miami Heat against the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks were led, once again, by Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Terry.

The Cougars were originally a charter member of the ABA as the Houston Mavericks in 1967.

One of memorable moments were the Miami Heat's loss to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2011 NBA Finals, when James averaged 3 points in the 4th quarter the whole series.

Drafted 15th overall in the 1997 NBA Draft by the Dallas Mavericks, Cato's draft rights were immediately traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for the draft rights to Chris Anstey and cash considerations.

After playing high school basketball at Masuk High School in Monroe, CT he moved to Durham, North Carolina to play for C. E. Jordan High School to finish his high school career, Alexander, a shooting guard, was selected by the Orlando Magic with the 13th overall pick in the 2000 NBA Draft after he played college basketball at University of Virginia and Fresno State ; his rights were traded to the Dallas Mavericks on the same day.

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.

This turned out to be a blessing for Harper because the Mavericks were on their way to a 13-69 win-loss campaign, while Harper was an integral part of a Knicks team that came within one game of winning the 1994 NBA Championship.

The Houston Mavericks were a charter member of the American Basketball Association.

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.

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

The Heat overcame a miserable start with a 14-point gap to wear down the Mavericks, and led by one point ( 49 – 48 ) at halftime.

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 ).

Despite scoring 39 points in regulation time and fouling out both Dampier and Keith Van Horn, Duncan only made one of seven field goal attempts in overtime against Mavericks reserve center DeSagana Diop, and the Spurs lost Game 7.

Dallas lost in the Western Conference Semifinals four games to one to the San Antonio Spurs, but it marked the beginning of a memorable run for Nash and the Mavericks.

During the 2004-05 NBA season, Blackman was hired as one of the Mavericks ' television analysts, along with Matt Pinto and Bob Ortegel.

Adams also was one of the owners of the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association and the former owner of the second Nashville Kats franchise of the Arena Football League.

This actually happened in the 2006 NBA Playoffs when the two best teams in the Western Conference, the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks, both from the Southwest Division, faced one another in the Western Conference Semifinals while the 3rd seed, the Northwest Division-leading Denver Nuggets, had fewer wins than the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th seeds. The NBA proposed and approved of the current format to ensure that the best two teams of a conference can meet no earlier than the Conference Finals.

However, in one of the biggest upsets in NBA playoff history, Nelson coached the 8th-seeded Warriors to victory over the top-seeded Mavericks in six games.

Nelson has five grown children, one of whom, Donnie Nelson, is the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks.

" Alford played in the NBA for four seasons, mostly with the Dallas Mavericks, though he spent a portion of one season with Golden State Warriors.

The 1976 team was the best of the Rainiers ' five-season run, finishing second by one game to the Portland Mavericks in the NWL's Independent Division.

In his third year, Biedriņš got a lucky break when the Warriors decided to replace coach Mike Montgomery with ex-Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson, elected one of the NBA's " Greatest Coaches of All Time.

* On June 28, 2009, the Mavericks performed two historic feats on one day.

In the Southern Division Championship Series, the JetHawks beat the 1st & 2nd Half Champion High Desert Mavericks, three games to one.

He served with the Mavericks for one season.

Kaman and the Mavericks agreed on a one year deal worth 8 million dollars.

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.

He spent one season with the Warriors, averaging 1. 6 points per game, 0. 8 rebounds per game, and 0. 7 assists per game in 37 games in the 2002-03 season before he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks, along with Antawn Jamison, Chris Mills and Danny Fortson, in exchange for Evan Eschmeyer, Nick Van Exel, Avery Johnson, Popeye Jones and Antoine Rigaudeau on August 18, 2003.

Hack-a-Shaq is the name commonly ascribed to a basketball defensive strategy initially instituted in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) by former Dallas Mavericks coach Don Nelson to hinder the scoring ability of the opposing team by continuously fouling one of its opposing players, the player chosen being the one with the lowest free throw percentage among players on the court.

At one point Arnold, worked at The Ticket, K104, WFAA-TV, and the Dallas Mavericks TV broadcasts simultaneously.