The 2011 – 12 NBA season, scheduled to begin November 1, 2011 with a matchup between the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Chicago Bulls, was postponed due to a labor dispute.

The team's operating income of $ 12. 7 million was on par with such old standards of the NBA such as the Boston Celtics who earned $ 12. 9 million and far exceeding the net operating losses of the Dallas Mavericks and the Portland Trailblazers of -$ 17. 4 and -$ 20. 3 respectively.

On July 10, former Dallas Mavericks power forward Brandon Bass was given a 4-year deal.

There was some controversy at the time since the University of Texas at Arlington also uses the Mavericks nickname.

Kiki Vandeweghe of UCLA was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft, but Vandeweghe refused to play for the expansion Mavericks and staged a holdout that lasted a month into the team's inaugural season.

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

It was an upset in name only, given the fact that the Warriors had swept the Mavericks in the regular season series.

But their opportunity for a three-peat was denied by the Dallas Mavericks in a four-game sweep of the second round.

In May 2006, Hasselhoff returned to the spotlight after he was mentioned in an interview of Dirk Nowitzki, an NBA star playing for the Dallas Mavericks and a native of Germany.

At the time, Noddy Holder was playing guitar and contributing to vocals in Steve Brett & The Mavericks.

In 2000, a compilation entitled The Genesis of Slade was released which contained rare and some previously unreleased material from The Vendors, Steve Brett & The Mavericks and The ' N Betweens.

When Johnson was replaced by Rick Carlisle, Westphal left coaching to become executive vice-president of basketball operations ( under Donnie Nelson ) for the Mavericks on October 2, 2008.

It was the first time any Mavericks player had ever led the NBA in any statistical category.

He made a minimal impact, and was traded to the Dallas Mavericks in 1998.

By his third season with the Mavericks, he was voted into his first NBA All-Star Game and had earned his first All-NBA selection.

After moving to Dallas, Nelson was able to convince his father, Don Nelson — then the Mavericks coach and general manager — to acquire the under-utilised Nash.

Following the 1998 NBA Draft, Nash was traded from the Suns to the Mavericks in exchange for Martin Müürsepp, Bubba Wells, the draft rights to Pat Garrity and a first-round draft pick ( who later turned out to be future Phoenix team-mate Shawn Marion ).

He was now an All-Star, increasingly appearing in television commercials and, with Finley and Nowitzki, a part of the Dallas Mavericks " Big Three.

The Heat then lost two of their best players when guard Tim Hardaway was traded to the Dallas Mavericks and Anthony Mason signed with the Milwaukee Bucks.

In a playoff series between the Mavericks and Spurs, Cuban cursed Spurs forward Bruce Bowen and was fined $ 200, 000 by the NBA for rushing onto the court and criticizing NBA officials.

After the 2006 NBA Finals, Cuban was fined $ 250, 000 by the NBA for repeated misconduct following the Mavericks ' loss to the Miami Heat in Game Five of the 2006 NBA Finals.

Cuban was apparently incensed that Smith had thrown an elbow that barely missed Mavericks forward Antoine Wright.

Despite his history, he was notably silent during the Mavericks ' 2011 championship playoff run.

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.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.