Dallas Mavericks
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| Date founded | 1980 | |||
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| Colors | blue, white and silver | |||
| Room | American Airlines Center (19 200 places) | |||
| Manager | Donnie Nelson | |||
| Coach | Rick Carlisle | |||
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The Dallas Mavericks in English), said the Mavs are a franchise of basketball in the NBA , based in Dallas in the state of Texas. The team is currently owned by American entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
Venues
- Reunion Arena : 1980 to 2001
- American Airlines Center : 2001 to present
Franchise History
1979-1983: A team that learns
In 1979 , a billionaire, Donald J. Carter (Don Carter), helped future of the franchise's general manager Norm Sonju , set up a folder to create a new team NBA in Texas. Dallas had already welcomed in the past teams of basketball , but for the account of the defunct league ABA. The team was then called the Dallas Chaparrals. Its existence was brief, since it only plays for two seasons, 1967 - 68 and 1972 - 73 , after the team moved to San Antonio to become the San Antonio Spurs.
In 1980 , after the All-Star Game , officials of the NBA , following a vote, accept the creation of a new franchise in Texas. After paying an entrance fee of 12 million dollars , the team's rich Carter will debut for the 1980-81 season and will play in the Midwest Division. The team name comes from the TV series Maverick. On 10 June 1980 , Dallas selects the draft , with his eleventh choice Kiki Vandeweghe , who enters into franchise history as the first player selected by the club.
Texas officials, during the expansion draft, allowing them to choose a player on each team (each team can protect seven players), choose not to hire experienced players, even All-Star, as Earl Monroe , Rick Barry or Pete Maravich , but prefer to rely on young players. Of the 22 players selected by Dallas, 18 have less than three years experience. Despite this, the Mavericks recovered 11 former first-round picks, including Austin Carr of the Cleveland Cavaliers Former rookie of the year, but at the end of career at that time. Coach Dick Motta took over the reins of the team.
All this beautiful world is ready to play in Reunion Arena , the stadium has built Carter, for approximately 27 million. The five major is little known, since it is composed of Abdul Jeelani , Jerome Whitehead , Tom LaGarde , Geoff Huston and Winford Boynes.
The first season was delicate, the club finished with a record of 15 wins and 67 defeats. The best scorer Jim Spanarkel has scored just 14.1 points while Tom LaGarde leads the team in rebounding with 8.6 per game taken.
Dallas makes sense exchanges, particularly against players of draft picks, and Vandeweghe, who did not play in the team, is exchanged with a first-round pick in 1986 against two first-round pick in 1981 and 1984. These two draft picks can choose Rolando Blackman in 1981 and Sam Perkins in 1984.
When the 1981 NBA Draft, Dallas selected players who transformed the team dramatically. Mark Aguirre with the first choice , Rolando Blackman with the ninth and finally Jay Vincent with the twenty-fourth choice. The first two men involved in the rise of Dallas: Aguirre in seven seasons in Texas shows an average of 24.6 points per game and his sidekick winger Blackman shows him an average of 19 points in 11 seasons with the Mavericks. Jay Vincent, meanwhile displays an average of 21 points per game in 1981-82, the best season of his career.
The 1981-82 season is slightly better with a record of 28 wins and 54 defeats, but the bad run of 13 defeats in fifteen games during the month of December, took away any hope of playoffs. The future looks better still for the Mavericks with Aguirre, Blackman, and Vincent, three talented rookies.
The 1982-83 season saw the Mavericks narrowly missed the playoffs. Throughout the season, they can claim a spot in the playoffs, but a loss of power in the second half of the season deprives them of that hope. The Mavericks with a record of 38 wins in 82 games marginally fail, but their infernal trio continues to follow up good performances. On June 14 , 1983, against Denver , Blackman's 31 points, Aguirre succeeds him a triple-double with 30 points, 11 rebounds and 16 assists. Aguirre later recorded 44 points.
Texan management persists in its choices in the draft, and in 1983 , selecting the leader of the Illinois , Derek Harper , who during his decade in Dallas shows an average of 15 points and 6 assists per game.
1983-1988: Learning from playoffs
Aguirre and Blackman continue to lead the team to the brand, supplied assists per Brad Davis , who is ranked tenth best passer in the league with 6.9 per game achievements. The Mavericks 1983-84 season was historic because it is their first appearance in the playoffs, and Mark Aguirre became the first Maverick selected All-Star Game. In 1983 , Dale Ellis, a future All-Star, was drafted.
During the 1983-84 season the club with a record of 43 wins, finished in fifth place in the Western Conference, but failed in conference semifinals against the Los Angeles Lakers in five innings.
The 1984 NBA Draft, makes the coming of the young Sam Perkins , a clever inside three points, just academic champion with the University of North Carolina. The 1984-85 season confirms the progress of the club that finishes with a record of 44 wins, 38 losses, earning a fourth place in the Conference. Aguirre continues to score as he can, with a record 49-point offensive at a meeting. Teammate Blackman participates at the All-Star Game 1985. This time the Mavs were beaten in the first round by the Portland Trail Blazers.
The following seasons are alike, the Mavericks' draft pick to the future of good players, like Detlef Schrempf in 1985, Roy Tarpley interior of the University of Michigan will mark the franchise in 1986 ... and in 1985 obtained by exchanging the coming of James Donaldson , a future All-Star pin.
Dallas makes good regular seasons, 44-38 and 55-27 in 1986 and 1987, but the adventure is short in the playoffs: during the playoffs in 1986 , Dallas is still out in the semifinals of the Conference by the Lakers and in 1987 , Seattle beats in the first round Texans. Dale Ellis was traded to the Sonics contributes to the elimination of his former team, thanks to his address three points.
1987-1988: In a victory for the NBA Finals
Dallas has a strong team, Mark Aguirre, Sam Perkins, James Donaldson, Derek Harper and Rolando Blackman, and a quality bench with Detlef Schrempf, Roy Tarpley and Brad Davis. The 1987-88 season is the apotheosis of this group, on a personal level, Aguirre continues to frighten counters with 25 points per game, he Donaldson plays the All-Star Game 1988, more Roy Tarpley was voted best sixth man the NBA.
The group wandered over to the pressure of the playoffs, knows the best course of its history, after taking out Houston and Denver , the Mavs face in their final Conference nemesis, the Los Angeles Lakers. Aguirre and his gang push Magic Johnson and his family until the seventh inning. Texans fail at the foot of the NBA finals, bowing 102-117 in the deciding game.
1989-1994: The beginnings of a decade of famine
The 1988-89 season, a season is black: the Mavs are without playoffs. Roy Tarpley was suspended the entire season for drug use, the star Mark Aguirre was traded against Adrian Dantley , a talented but depressed, Schrempf was traded against Herb Williams of the Indiana Pacers. The talented German will explode a few seasons later. Added to this injury in March pivot Donaldson.
The following season 1989-90, the Mavs back in the playoffs with a record of 47 wins. Dallas, despite the movement of players, continues to be a solid team on both sides of the field.
Last season was an interlude appears in the descent of the franchise. The draft choice become fainter and the best people are leaving or older and are not replaced. Sam Perkins, valuable player, while free agent decides to go to Los Angeles , arriving instead of former All-Stars in their thirties like Lafayette Lever and Alex English. Tarpley early season is still suspended for using drugs , the next season he is still banned ... The team finished with a dismal record of 28 wins and 54 defeats, despite the presence of the always brilliant Rolando Blackman and Derek Harper.
The 1991-92 season is of the same ilk, the team is undermined by the suspension of Tarpley and the injury of Lever, a former star point guard, who will only play 35 games in 3 seasons in Dallas because of his knee. The record is 22 wins and 60 defeats.
The 1992-93 season is one of the worst in the history of the league, the team loses 71 games out of 82 possible. Blackman, four-time All-Star team's leading scorer, was traded to the New York Knicks in the summer of 1992 against the first-round picks. Herb Williams, another important player, free of any commitment from him also during the summer. The club is his fourth draft pick on the talented winger Jimmy Jackson , but he and Carter still owns the team, unable to agree on the rookie contract, thus it can not play until the mid-season. One stands out Derek Harper, the veteran tries to pull his team up, in vain, scoring 18.2 points per game.
The following season, despite the arrival of Quinn Buckner , a coach and talented side at the time, and the presence of two promising young (Jimmy Jackson and Jamal Mashburn ), the team remains in the depths. The season is a disaster, in January the results are meager three victories to 40 defeats. Bruckner's message does not pass. But hope is in order, Mashburn dominates the rookies in the category of points scored with 19.2 points per game and Jackson is a complete player, evidenced by his triple-double made during the season.
1994-1996: The Three "J" and false hopes
After the disaster of last season, legendary coach Dick Motta returns. The Mavericks get the second choice in the draft, and use it to engage the young leader of California, Jason Kidd. The Dallas team seemed then to have the talent to again become a subscriber of the playoffs.
Jason Kidd is a leader promising, but already very strong, he ended the season as co-Rookie of the Year (with Grant Hill ). His stats are very complete, 11.5 points, 5.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists, he produced four triple-doubles this year and finishes in the top ten in assists and steals. It should be added to the starting point guard, the other two "J", Jimmy Jackson and Jamal Mashburn, who mark more than twenty-four points both. These scorers are helped by Popeye Jones, Tenth rebounder in the league with ten catches and Roy Tarpley brings back 12.6 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. All this beautiful world ends with 36 victories and 46 defeats.
The 1995-96 season, does not confirm the progress, 26 wins and 56 defeats. This cons-performance is due to several events: Mashburn talented winger played only the first eighteen games before being sidelined due to knee injury. The other two prodigies, Kidd and Jackson may not understand, for personal reasons and it shows on the field. This does not Kidd to be the first Maverick to hold the All-Star Game 1996. The lack of veterans is terribly lacking. The absence of a domestic threat, and a talented player in the paint, forcing the team to pull three points without stopping. The team also finished first in the ranking of the three runs scored, including George McCloud. Former assistant coach of the Chicago Bulls , Jim Cleammons , took over the team after the season.
The 1996-97 season was a turning point, although the team's results are still poor, with 24 victories and 58 defeats. I have three beautiful personal statistics have excellent follow up baskets and assists, the collective results do not seem to follow. Management decides to terminate the experiment. By December, Jason Kidd is sent along with additional players to the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Michael Finley and Sam Cassell and others. Later in February, Mashbrun is sent to Miami against three players whose additions Kurt Thomas. The latest "J" Jackson hand over one of the biggest transfers in the history of the league in terms of number of players included. Five Mavericks with Jackson, Cassell and Chris Gatling played yet that the All-Star Game this season, four players are traded against the New Jersey Nets.
During this season, Cleamons, whose failure is obvious, is replaced by Don Nelson. Nelson, who has repeatedly been voted coach of the year with the Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors , but has also coached the U.S. in the World 1994. However, coach Don Nelson is a challenge. His falling out with Chris Webber and his departure from the Warriors seem to have shipped the Californians in the shallows. Her last experience with the Knicks ended badly, and Don Nelson goes for a coach get older and conservative. His arrival in-season is a frenzy of trading, as is so well that only two players make the entire season.
1996-1999: The excellent results of Nelson
The 1997-98 season was hardly glorious with 20 victories and 62 defeats. Michael Finley is the leader of the team with 21 points and 4.9 assists per game.
The team is completed with Robert Pack , Kurt Thomas , Shawn Bradley , Samaki Walker , Cedric Ceballos and AC Green.
The 1998-99 season shortened due to lockout, is not always synonymous with playoffs for Dallas. The team tallied 19 wins and 31 defeats, but the end of the season is promising with 15 victories over the last 25 meetings. Finley continues to assert itself in the team with 20 points per game, helped inside Gary Trent realizes it his best season. It was during this season appears the German domestic Dirk Nowitzki. Originally drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks , Nelson gets his coming in his rookie selected exchanging cons, Robert Traylor , a large hub.
The next season was promising, with 40 victories for the first time in ten years, and offers a good end of season by winning 30 games and losing only 18. Michael Finley multiplies exploits, he is one of four NBA players to score over 20 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists carry per game. It achieves this season, four triple-doubles. Nowitzki with 17.5 seconds Finley good points and 6.5 rebounds. The Mavericks finish 9th in the Western Conference and first non-qualified for the playoffs. In 1999-2000, the club was bought by millionaire Mark Cuban
2000-2005: In the playoffs again
The 2000-01 season is the end of ten years of scarcity: the final balance of 53 wins and 29 losses offer a spot in the playoffs for the first time since the 1989-90 season. During the season, Don Nelson has to undergo treatment for prostate cancer, he left the place during his absence from a group of inexperienced assistants, led by his son Donnie. At the end of the regular season, Dirk Nowitzki became the first Maverick to be named All-NBA Third Team.
During the playoffs, the Mavericks' inexperience cost them the first two games of the first round against the Utah Jazz , but Dallas made a surprise by winning the next three innings to qualify for the next round. They were eliminated in five innings by their neighbors, the San Antonio Spurs.
The next season is in continuity: the struggle for the Midwest Division title all season, the Mavericks won 57 victories, one fewer than their regular-season record. But this is insufficient in the playoffs: having swept the Minnesota Timberwolves in the first round, Dallas is in turn eliminated by the Sacramento Kings in six innings in the next round.
The arrival of Cuban who invests heavily in player salaries, installs the Mavericks among the contenders in the title. For the 2002-2003 season show halo of a review of 60 victories and 22 defeats, the best season in their history. The attacking trident, composed of Canadian, great leader, Steve Nash , back to do everything Michael Finley and Dirk Nowitzki of Germany, is one of the best trio in the league. But again the team does not have the title, beaten by Spurs in the conference finals after losing Dirk Nowitzki during the series. They still carry a singular record in the first game of the final, won in San Antonio, returning 49 consecutive free throws after the initial throw missed by Eduardo Najera to finish the game with 49/50 shots!
For the 2003-2004 season, seeing that the Big Three can not achieve the title or even the NBA finals, Mark Cuban decided to reinforce the "Big Three" by acquiring winger Antawn Jamison , gifted in attack and rebound, and Antoine Walker, the star of the Boston Celtics. These two players, famous for their attacking qualities, however, lack of involvement in defense, and Walker has over the annoying habit of earning too little to cart ...
The sauce for this team of All-Star power does not. The team only wins 52 games this season. She has no backbone worthy of the name, which sometimes requires Walker and Nowitzki to evolve to this position. The two new recruits, Jamison and Walker did not have the desired impact. The playoffs end in the first round against the Sacramento Kings. Jamison is indeed elected as the sixth man of the year, but this status does not satisfy replacement. He was finally exchanged during the summer at Washington Wizards cons behind Jerry Stackhouse (which compared to its debut in Michael Jordan ). Antoine Walker is also transferred to the Atlanta Hawks against the point guard Jason Terry.
But the event this summer 2004 is the departure of point guard Steve Nash. While free agent, he decided to return to the club from its beginnings, Phoenix.
For the 2004-2005 season, Don Nelson is trying to compose a five-balanced, with a real pivot ... He brought Erick Dampier. The player, who has just released the best season of his career with Golden State is made to fill gaps and to support the rebound Dirk Nowitzki in the paint.
Dallas makes a better year, and finished fourth in the Western Conference. Before the end of the regular season, Don Nelson gave up his position as his assistant coach Avery Johnson. He says that players are now more obedient to Johnson.
The adventure might have ended in the playoffs in the first round without a burst of pride of Dallas. Defeated in the first two home games, the Mavs reverse the trend by beating twice the Rockets at home in Houston, and eventually win. In the next round, the Dallas faced the Phoenix Suns , which evolves Steve Nash. The Canadiens have transformed the club in Arizona: the Suns have made the best progress on a season in the history of the NBA , and Nash was named MVP (player of the year). The Mavericks have finally beaten after 6 innings, helpless offensive performance (several points to 40 points) of Nash and Stoudemire.
In 2005-2006 the team finished in third place in the league in equaling their record of 60 wins to 22 defeats, always under the leadership of Avery Johnson and with Nowitzki showing exceptional ability, he is also named in the All-NBA First Team. 4-0 after crushing the Grizzlies , the Mavericks beat the Spurs , the first Western Conference team, during a hotly contested series of 7 games which will end with a record of 4-3 for Dallas. The German player is also decisive, making action at three points in the final seconds of the deciding game, to pull an extension, eventually won by the Mavs. They meet in the conference final against the Phoenix Suns and qualify for the first final in franchise history by beating the Suns 4-2. Dirk Nowitzki is then on a cloud, making two game over 40 points on the series, including sixth at the decisive game. In the final, face the Miami Heat , the team takes a great start and took advantage of home field advantage, leading 2-0 before moving to Florida. Despite very tight games with scores, the Mavericks can not win and third victory this valuable experience of the law brought by a Miami grand Dwayne Wade (MVP of the finals with 36.6 points per game). They lost 4-2 losing the last game in Texas.
2006-2007 Season
In 2006-2007, the Dallas Mavericks finished first (67 wins, 15 losses) of the Western Conference and the entire league. Between December 13 and March 30, the Mavs have lost only 4 games for 47 wins. But the 2006 NBA finalists were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by Golden State Warriors for 2 wins 4 losses. Dirk Nowitzki, probably a little traumatized by his failure in NBA Finals disappoints (19.7 points and 11.3 rebounds but above 38% to 21% shooting and three points) is never decisive in key moments (8 points to 2 / 13 with 0 / 6 at three points in Game 6), the absence of real pivot has not been compensated either by back away from their performance this winter. The presence of Don Nelson, former mentor of Nowitzki and Avery Johnson on the bench of the Warriors is certainly no stranger to this defeat, his former student Avery Johnson The elimination of top seed in the first round n That was until arrival at Seattle (1994) and Miami (1999), moreover at a time when the first round was played as best of five matches The conquest of the title (2008 -) After several sharp disillusion of pay-off, Mark Cuban begins an overhaul of the squad, and ended the era Avery Johnson up to new coach Rick Carlisle. From 2008 to 2010 the team is totally changed, but always centered around their superstar, Dirk Nowitzki, Devin Harris exit, Josh Howard and Eric Dampier place was Jason Kidd , Caron Butler , Tyson Chandler , Shawn Marion and the young French Rodrigue Beaubois. During the 2008-2009 season, the Mavericks are the favorites in the title it will take the 6th place in the Western Conference with a record of 50 wins to 32 defeats it will be eliminated at the 2nd round play-off by the Denver Nuggets. The 2009-2010 season was even more prolific he finished second in the Western Conference with a record of 55 victories and 27 defeats. Play-offs, they are eliminated by San Antonio Spurs 4-2. The 2010-2011 season started very strong for the Mavericks, despite the absence of Rodrigue Beaubois , after a week of competition is the star Dirk Nowitzki is injured followed by Caron Butler , who is injured for the rest of the season. Despite the efforts of DeShawn Stevenson and Jason Terry , the team enchaine defeats. The return of Dirk Nowitzki will do much good to the team, especially as it lines up stats worthy of an MVP. In early February he sent the pivot French Ajina Alexis , in Toronto against Predrag Stojakovi. (*): Players always moving in the franchise Awards
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Dallas Mavericks
Current workforce Coach : Rick Carlisle Leader 3 
Rodrigue Beaubois ( France ) Forward / Back 4 
Caron Butler (C) ( Connecticut ) Wing 16 
Predrag Stojakovi ( Serbia ) Wing 35 Brian Cardinal ( Purdue ) Pivot 6 Tyson Chandler (Dominguez High School, California) Pivot 33 Brendan Haywood ( North Carolina ) Leader 20 Dominique Jones (R) ( South Florida ) Leader 2 Jason Kidd (C) ( California ) Pivot 28 Ian Mahinmi (France) Wing 0 Shawn Marion ( UNLV ) Forward / Back 13 Corey Brewer ( Florida ) Power forward 41 a href = "Flag_of_Germany.svg" class = "image" alt = "Flag of Germany"> 
Dirk Nowitzki (C) (Germany) Back 92 DeShawn Stevenson (Washington Union High School, California) Rear / Leader 31 Jason Terry ( Arizona ) (C) - Captain (AL) - Free Agent (R) - Rookie (or or Rookie ) Top Scorers in the history of the franchise
Place Player Name Country Points 1. Dirk Nowitzki * Germany 22 092 2. Rolando Blackman United States 16 643 3. Mark Aguirre United States 13 930 4. Derek Harper United States 12 597 5. Michael Finley United States 12 389 6. Jason Terry * United States 8 539 7. Brad Davis United States 7 623 8. Sam Perkins United States 6 766 9. Josh Howard United States 6 614 10. Jay Vincent United States 6 464 Last Updated: February 10, 2011 Basketball Hall of Fame
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