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• Mavericks Notes: Gafford, Lively, Doncic, Irving, Thompson, Grimes
The Mavericks have fielded some inquiries regarding Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively but haven’t shown an interest in trading either big man, Michael Scotto of Hoops Hype reports. However, the Mavericks could be active in the trade market. They could seek potential upgrades by parting with their 2025 first-round pick or their 2031 first-rounder. They […]...2024
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• Western Notes: Lively, Timberwolves’ Ownership Dispute, Williamson, Finch
Mavericks second-year big man Dereck Lively could return to action on Tuesday, Tim MacMahon of ESPN tweets. Lively had missed last four games due to sprained right shoulder. He told MacMahon he had a “good practice” on Monday in San Francisco and hopes to play against the Warriors. “Just got to see how I feel […]...2024
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• Mavericks Exercise 25-26 Options On Dereck Lively II, Olivier-Maxence Prosper

The Dallas Mavericks have exercised the third-year rookie scale options on center Dereck Lively II and forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper. Lively, a 7-foot-1-inch, 234-pound center out of Duke, was originally selected by the Oklahoma City Thunder as the 12th overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft, before having his draft rights traded to Dallas in exchange for DÄvis BertÄns and the draft rights to 10t...2024
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• Mavericks Exercise 2025/26 Options On Lively, Prosper
The Mavericks have exercised the third-year rookie scale team options on center Dereck Lively and combo forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper, Dallas revealed (Twitter link). They’ll now be under team control through at least the 2025/26 season. Though both were first-round draft picks last summer, their impacts on a Finals-bound Mavericks squad were significantly different. Lively, a […]...2024
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• Why attacking ‘weaker’ NBA defenders on switches may not be a good strategy

Photo by Adam Hagy/NBAE via Getty Images Targeting players perceived as being bad on defense through switches has become an NBA strategy staple, but the data suggests that — at least in most cases — this may be a bad strategy. At times, Luka Doncic is a liability on the defensive end. When he’s guarding away from the ball, he’s known to lose focus and surrender open shots. He often takes h...2024
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• Every NBA team ranked by its 2025 championship chances to start season

Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their 2025 championship chances to start the season. The start of a new NBA season is the ultimate time for optimism. Every team is undefeated, and each organization’s season-long goals are still within reach. The NBA is fully entrenched in its parity era. The league has had a different champion each of the last six ...2024
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• Predicting USA Basketball’s next Olympics men’s roster for 2028 Los Angeles Games

Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images LeBron James and Stephen Curry won’t be there. Let’s predict Team USA’s men’s basketball roster for 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The United States men’s basketball national team is an Olympic dynasty. Team USA’s triumphant gold medal run at the 2024 Paris Olympics made it five straight gold medals — and eight of the last nine — for the program. This par...2024
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• Dereck Lively II’s hard-won gravity

Photo by Tim Heitman/Getty Images We caught up with Dereck Lively II to discuss his breakout rookie season in the NBA and a whole lot more in the NBPA’s Brotherhood Deli at Las Vegas Summer League. LAS VEGAS — Not many people come to Las Vegas for self-reflection. To lose themselves, yes, but to veer into the meditative is a direction at odds with the city itself. Distractions abound, the ...2024
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• Sabrina Ionescu and her sneakers both broke records this year: US Olympic Basketball Files

Photo by Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images Get to know the Liberty’s Sabrina Ionescu, one of the WNBA’s best three-point shooters. SB Nation is introducing each of the 12 members of the US Olympic Women’s Basketball team this week. Here’s what you need to know about Sabrina Ionescu, one of the WNBA’s top three-point shooters and the mastermind behind one of the most popular sneakers the ga...2024
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• NBA Finals 2024: Schedule, TV, streaming, scores, and more for Celtics-Mavericks

Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The 2024 NBA Finals are set. Here is how, and what, to watch The 2024 NBA Finals are here. The Boston Celtics are back in the Finals, making a return trip after losing to the Golden State Warriors back in 2022. For the bulk of the season the Celtics were the class of the Eastern Conference, finishing with a 64-18 record — the best i...2024
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• 3 reasons Mavericks can win NBA Finals over Boston Celtics

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images The Mavericks are the underdog in the NBA Finals, but there’s still a pathway to a championship. For most of this season, the Dallas Mavericks looked like they didn’t have enough talent around Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving to breakthrough in a loaded Western Conference. That all changed at the Feb. 8 trade deadline, when Dallas — sitting at No. 8 in the W...2024
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• NBA Finals’ 15 best players for Celtics vs. Mavericks, ranked

Photo by David Berding/Getty Images Let’s rank the best players in the 2024 NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks. The Boston Celtics were expected to be in the 2024 NBA Finals from the very start of the season. Even the most optimistic fan of the Dallas Mavericks couldn’t have seen the team getting this far as recently as a couple months ago. The Celtics were the most...2024
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• Dereck Lively II Cleared To Play Game 5
Dereck Lively II was cleared to play in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals after suffering a neck sprain in Game 3. Lively missed Game 4 due to the injury, but he did not suffer a concussion and sat on the Dallas Mavericks' bench. The Mavericks enter Game 5 with a 3-1 series lead over the Minnesota Timberwolves....2024
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• Dereck Lively II injury update: Mavericks center available for Game 5 vs. Wolves as Dallas tries to win West

Lively missed Game 4 with a neck sprain...2024
• Dereck Lively II injury update: Mavs center works out Thursday, still questionable for Game 5 vs. Wolves

Lively missed Game 4 with a neck sprain...2024

• NBPA returns to Las Vegas with multiple player-centric activities for fans

Photo by Bart Young/NBAE via Getty Images Basketball fans planning to be in Las Vegas for NBA Summer League have a few additional events options this year, courtesy of the NBPA. For any NBA fans heading to Las Vegas for NBA Summer League, the National Basketball Players Association is putting on a variety of events where the biggest basketball enthusiasts in the world can get a chance to i...2024
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• Why Zach Edey is first round pick on our 2024 NBA Draft board

Let’s dive into Zach Edey’s NBA Draft projection, scouting report, and best team fits for the Purdue center Zach Edey was never supposed to be a generational college basketball star. For most of his life, he didn’t even want to play the sport. Edey played hockey and baseball growing up in Toronto. By the time he graduated eighth grade, he was already 6’10. To that point in his life, he had never p...2024
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"The supporting cast in Dallas is improved only so much as it lets Doncic be the best version of himself: he has a lob threat in rookie center Dereck Lively II, a defensive enforcer and spot-up shooter in Grant Williams, and pogo stick finisher in Derrick Jones Jr."

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"Dallas Mavericks rookie Dereck Lively II has begun his NBA career with a level of shooting accuracy that’s almost hard to believe, especially for a first year player."

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"Basketball runs in Dereck Lively’s blood."

• Mavericks Exercise 25-26 Options On Dereck Lively II, Olivier-Maxence Prosper
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• 2024 NBA Draft: Baylor's Yves Missi, drafted No. 21 by Pelicans, wants to be the next Dereck Lively II

The Cameroonian center has relatively little experience, but a world of upside...2024
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• The Mavericks’ Game 4 showed a blueprint that could allow them to make history against the Celtics

Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports Dallas kept the door from slamming shut in Game 4. Here’s how they can keep it cracked open. After the Dallas Mavericks' deflating loss in Game 3 to the Boston Celtics on Wednesday, the normal cliches and platitudes were shared by players and coaches alike. The theme was universal: the series isn’t over, take it one game at a time. It was nothing earth-shatteri...2024
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• Just how impactful has rookie Derek Lively II been for the Mavs’ journey to Finals?
There are many reasons for Dallas‘ successful season, starting with the offensive powerhouse of the Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving duo, the acquirement of new players like Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington before the trade deadline, and of course, the development of the first-round prized rookie Dereck Lively II. The 7-foot-1 athlete, who was selected in […] The post Just how impactful has r...2024
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• Sabrina Ionescu and her sneakers both broke records this year: US Olympic Basketball Files
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• Caitlin Clark is changing everything about WNBA coverage, for better or for worse

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images The W chose to ride the wave of the 2024 No. 1 overall pick, and that shouldn’t be a huge surprise. It’s impossible to have proper discourse about athletes in general on social media, as everything is made into arbitrary arguments. And if they’re not, a straw man lurks in the comments. The point gets lost, and you regret ever opening the app. Sports are no...2024
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• Derrick White got his face smashed in for Celtics to prove how bad he wants a ring

Boston is closing in on No. 18, and Derrick White is doing everything he can to get the Celtics over the top The Boston Celtics have a chance Monday night to capture their 18th NBA Finals title. And they are putting it all on the line in pursuit of that championship. Literally. With the minutes ticking down in the first half, Boston held a 52-39 lead over the visiting Dallas Mavericks in Game 5, a...2024
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• 2024 NBA Finals: Dereck Lively dedicates first career 3-pointer to his late mother: 'She helped me make it'

Lively's mother passed away in April...2024
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• Mavericks Notes: Lively, Kidd, Washington, Doncic
Mavericks rookie center Dereck Lively II talks about balancing his first NBA playoff experience and his mother’s recent death in a compelling story by Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News. Townsend notes that Dallas fans have become familiar with Lively’s tragic journey, which saw him use the NIL money from his lone season at Duke […]...2024
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• Mavericks center Dereck Lively pays tribute to late mom after playoff clincher

The Mavericks center has been playing with a heavy heart....2024
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Dallas' rookie is playing with a heavy heart. "His mom did an incredible job raising him to this point. Her legacy will live on in him."...2024
• NBA’s 11 best rookies this season, ranked

Let’s rank the best rookies in the NBA for the 2023-2024 season This rookie class in the NBA will always go down in history as the year Victor Wembanyama made his grand entrance into the league. Wembanyama’s rookie season was so spellbinding, so sporadically brilliant that it overshadowed everything in its path, including his talented peers that were quietly forming one of the deeper groups of pro...2024
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• The Mavs Rookie Who Doesn’t Miss
Dallas Mavericks rookie Dereck Lively II has begun his NBA career with a level of shooting accuracy that’s almost hard to believe, especially for a first year player. Lively’s 77.8 per cent shooting ranks him second in the entire NBA behind Charlotte’s Mark Williams and his Dallas Mavericks squad is currently sitting at 6-1, the […] The post The Mavs Rookie Who Doesn’...2023
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• Mavs Rookies Speak on Sharing the Court With Luka Doncic
Two rookies, Duke center Dereck Lively and Marquette forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper were added to Dallas’ roster on draft night and the thought of playing alongside Luka Doncic has them pumped. Slovenian superstar Doncic is undoubtedly one of the brightest stars in the game and Prosper told the media how excited he is to be playing […] The post Mavs Rookies Speak on Sharing the Court ...2023
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• NBA mock draft 2023: Instant projection after lottery with Spurs winning No. 1 pick
Here’s our instant NBA mock draft after the Spurs won the lottery for the rights to Victor Wembanyama. The 2023 NBA Draft will go down as one of the most anticipated in league history. It’s a deep class rich with talent at multiple positions, but there will be no suspense over the No. 1 overall pick. Victor Wembanyama is the big prize waiting at the top of the draft, and the 7’5 French super pros...2023
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• The 9 best fits in the 2023 NBA Draft, ranked
Photo by Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images Here are our favorite team and player fits from the 2023 NBA Draft. It’s foolish to judge a selection in the NBA draft exclusively on present day fit. Rosters around the league change far too quickly for that, especially when 19 of the 30 first round picks in the 2023 NBA Draft were teenagers. It’s going to take years before we can properly evalua...2023
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• NBA mock draft 2023: Updated first round projection after March Madness
Photo by Catherine Steenkeste/Getty Images Here’s our latest look at the 2023 NBA Draft following March Madness. The 2023 men’s NCAA tournament was defined by upsets: from No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson pulling out an unbelievable victory over Purdue in the first round to zero No. 1 seeds even reaching the Elite Eight, this was one of the most unpredictable brackets in history. In the en...2023
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• 2023 NBA Mock Draft: Victor Wembanyama goes No. 1, then intrigue starts; Duke's Dereck Lively II enters top 10

There were some big risers and fallers in the final prediction before Thursday's draft...2023
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• NBA MVP candidates, ranked for 2024 by who is most likely to win

Ranking 2024 NBA MVP candidates so far. The NBA MVP award is a snapshot of where the league is at and where it’s headed. Giannis Antetokounmpo won MVP in 2019 and 2020 before leading his Milwaukee Bucks to the championship in 2021. Nikola Jokic won MVP in 2021 and 2022 before leading his Denver Nuggets to the championship in 2023. Postseason success is the only thing eluding Joel Embiid to this po...2024
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• NBA Draft team grades 2023: 8 clubs earn an ‘A’ for total draft night hauls
Photo by Cameron Browne/NBAE via Getty Images Let’s grade every team’s haul in the 2023 NBA Draft. The immediate aftermath of the NBA Draft can be difficult to wrap your head around. Following the draft is a slow burn that builds up over 12 months until the day finally arrives. Suddenly, trades rearrange the order and players get sent to new teams all over the course of one night. The 202...2023
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• Fantasy Basketball Waiver Wire: Dereck Lively II & Cam Thomas, hot first-week pickups

It may be opening week, but it's never too early to jump in and make additions that could help your fantasy team all season....2023
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• Dr. A's weekly risers and fallers: Dereck Lively II, Jaden Ivey make the list

Who are the fantasy basketball players on the rise? Whose fantasy value is falling? Steve Alexander lays it all out for you in his weekly look around the NBA....2023
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• Mavs Notes: Lively, Gafford, Thompson, Morris, Dinwiddie
Daniel Gafford was the Mavericks‘ starting center down the stretch and in the playoffs last season, but second-year big man Dereck Lively has a chance to overtake him for that role this fall. As Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News (subscription required) writes, head coach Jason Kidd has suggested Gafford and Lively could compete […]...2024
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• 2024 NBA Finals odds, picks, best bets for Celtics vs. Mavericks Game 1: Luka Doncic, Dallas come out firing

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• Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, Michigan State basketball showed who they really are at Champions Classic

Observations on Kentucky, Duke, Kansas, and Michigan State after the 2023 Champions Classic. CHICAGO — It was 10 years ago this week when I was credentialed to cover the Champions Classic at the United Center for the first time. There was, to steal a phrase, palpable buzz in the building. Duke vs. Kansas was a matchup of the top recruits in the country: Jabari Parker vs. Andrew Wiggins. Both play...2023
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• Duke basketball’s best ever recruits of the one-and-done era, ranked

Let’s rank Duke’s best recruits of the one-and-done era after Cooper Flagg’s commitment. The Duke Blue Devils have maintained their dominance in men’s college basketball recruiting even after the retirement of Mike Krzyzewski. New head coach Jon Scheyer landed the No. 1 ranked recruiting class in the country in his first year in charge with the class of 2022, and his haul in the class of 2023 ran...2023
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• Every NBA team, ranked by their championship chances in 2023-2024 season

Let’s rank every team in the NBA by their championship chances for the 2023-2024 season. The NBA always feels like it’s at its best when there’s an elite tier of contenders. After two blockbuster trades to close the summer, it finally feels like that’s the case as the league enters the 2023-2024 season. The Bucks have added Damian Lillard to fix a struggling halfcourt offense in the playoffs. The ...2023
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• NBA Draft team grades 2023: 8 clubs earn an ‘A’ for total draft night hauls
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• The 9 best fits in the 2023 NBA Draft, ranked
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• NBA mock draft 2023: Latest projection with perfect picks for every selection
Photo by Christian Bonin/NBAE via Getty Images Here’s our latest NBA mock draft. There are a few things we know for sure about the 2023 NBA Draft. Victor Wembanyama is going No. 1 overall to the San Antonio Spurs. The New Orleans Pelicans want G League Ignite point guard Scoot Henderson, but they would have to trade into the top-three to get him. Damian Lillard would probably like the Port...2023
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• NBA mock draft 2023: Updated projection with big changes less than 2 weeks from draft
Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images There are some big changes in our latest mock draft. It’s almost jarring how fast the NBA Draft sneaks up on the league calendar even if you’re the type of person who spends the whole year preparing for it (guilty). Once the NBA Finals end, it’s a sprint to the draft with rumors and smoke screens bubbling up in equal measure until the big night finally ar...2023
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• NBA Draft rumors: Magic trying to trade up, Dereck Lively rising, Pacers like Klintman
NBA Draft rumors: Orlando Magic trying to trade into top 5 The Orlando Magic own the No. 6 and No. 11 picks in the upcoming NBA Draft. With so much young talent on the roster, it would not be shocking for the front office to consolidate assets in favor of landing one great prospect instead […] NBA Draft rumors: Magic trying to trade up, Dereck Lively rising, Pacers like Klintman - FanSided -...2023
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