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Death by Way of Basketball: Dallas Mavericks Cremate Philadelphia 76ers

By TJ Macías • November 14, 2014

Photo courtesy of Taylor Macias/Baller Mind Frame . There are two things that are aggressively bipolar and tend to shift within a five minute time period inside the Dallas city limits: The weather and the...

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Dallas Mavericks Dismantle Memphis Grizzlies in True Preseason Form

By TJ Macías • October 21, 2014

Despite the wandering anxiousness that muddles about during the NBA preseason in the days before regular season tipoff, there’s a stubbornly disobedient coolness that counteracts the anxiety, a coolness that can’t be described with words...

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Mavericks Hand LeBron and his Cavaliers First Preseason Loss

By TJ Macías • October 18, 2014

Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . As NBA fans anxiously wait for the start of the 2014-15 regular season with wide-eyed wonder and desperation, there appears to be one question that festers on everyone’s minds:...

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For Reason and Rhyme: Dallas Mavericks Fall 0-2 in Preseason

By TJ Macías • October 11, 2014

Image courtesy of The Terrific TC/Flickr . Within the first half of a preseason game, fans are presented with all they really need to see – what they came to watch. They came to get...

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Houston Rockets Win the Game, But Dallas Mavericks Win the War

By TJ Macías • October 08, 2014

Image courtesy of TJ Macias/ Baller Mind Frame . New was the key word of Tuesday night at the American Airlines Center. With a sense of calm alacrity, Dallas Mavericks’ small forward Chandler Parsons emerged...

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Dallas Mavericks Media Day: Locked and Reloaded in Big D

By TJ Macías • October 01, 2014

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NBA Season Preview: Dallas Mavericks Team Preview

By TJ Macías • September 29, 2014

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Austin Rivers is getting better ... slowly

By Mohamed Mohamed • March 07, 2014

Image courtesy of Keith Allison/Flickr . The New Orleans Pelicans have been terrible for a while now in the faint hopes of retaining their protected first-round pick they traded away to Philadelphia. They're 10-22 since...

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NBA deadline trades that should have happened

By Mike Hammel • February 21, 2014

Image courtesy of Erik Daniel Drost/Flickr . Opportunity frequently knocks in the NBA but many GMs fail to open the door. The trade deadline has passed and most league insiders will spend their day evaluating...

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Fantasy Basketball: The Calm before the Storm

By Erik Ong • January 21, 2014

The dust has settled after the return of several injured players like Marc Gasol, Tyson Chandler and, most recently, Rajon Rondo. Team lineups and rotations have been adjusted and we have a good idea of...