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    Tough Road Ahead

    Stars and Mavs make playoffs but face long odds at actually winning titles

    Brad Seal
    Apr 15, 2014 | 10:09 am

    Early April was a good time to be a Dallas sports fan as co-American Airlines Center tenants Dallas Mavericks and Dallas Stars clinched post-season berths in their respective sports.

    The Mavs survived a brutal Western Conference to finally snag a spot in the NBA playoffs, while the Stars just managed to grab the final wild card slot to chase Lord Stanley’s Cup.

    Both teams are lower playoff seeds, which means they will have a tough road to get to a championship. Although the Stars have at a realistic shot at making some playoff noise, history says the Mavericks have as much of a chance at winning a title as they do landing LeBron James as a free agent.

    History says the Mavericks have as much of a chance at winning a title as they do landing LeBron James as a free agent.

    The Mavericks are no stranger to first-round upsets. They were on the wrong end of one of the biggest first round upsets in NBA history. Those kind of moments are few and far between in the NBA as the league has created a playoff format that heavily favors the better teams.

    In the past 30 years, four top seeds have lost in the opening round, and only once has a team lower than the fourth seed won a title. (The 1995 Houston Rockets won the title as a six seed.)

    In fact, even making it to the finals as a lower seed is rarer than a missed free throw by Dirk Nowitzki. Coincidentally, if the Mavericks happened to be in the Eastern Conference this season, they would be a three seed and would have a much greater chance to advance past the first round.

    Although the NBA playoffs seem to work out exactly as planned, trying to predict the NHL playoffs is like tracking a paper airplane in a tornado — no seed is completely safe. In 2010, the seventh seeded Flyers played the eighth seeded Canadians in the Eastern Conference finals. In 2012, the eighth seeded Los Angeles Kings went all the way and won the Stanley Cup, while last season none of the two or three seeded teams made it out of the first round.

    Now the NHL has decided to make things even more interesting by introducing a new playoff format (apparently the NHL’s plan to increase its putrid television ratings is to further confuse viewers). This new format matches the Stars against the Anaheim Ducks, a team Dallas won two of three against during the regular season. Most experts are picking the Ducks, but those same experts are pointing to the series as a possible upset in the making.

    Not that Stars fans should start planning the route for the championship parade. In 37 seasons, only two teams seeded lower than fourth have won a title, and only nine have even made it to the Stanley Cup finals. Essentially if history is an accurate marker, the Stars have less than a 25 percent chance to make the finals.

    Sadly, that’s still a better chance the Mavericks have. Enjoy your local teams in the playoffs while you can, because odds are you won’t see them there for long.

    Dirk Nowitzki is trying to make one last run at an NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks.

      
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    Women's Basketball News

    Dallas Wings new women's basketball stars get warm welcome from city

    Alex Bentley
    Apr 23, 2025 | 12:15 pm
    WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert and Dallas Wings No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers
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    The Dallas Wings No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers brings big hopes for fans in the 2025 season

    The newest members of women's basketball team the Dallas Wings are already making waves: Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, and her fellow new recruits were welcomed by a press conference at Dallas City Hall on April 23 — part of the Dallas Wings' official introduction of the rookie class.

    According to a releasae, Dallas Wings draftees Paige Bueckers, Aziaha James, Madison Scott, JJ Quinerly, and Aaronette Vonleh were welcomed by Mayor Eric Johnson and City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert, and gifted with cowboy hats by the City of Dallas Economic Development Corporation.

    The team will start the 2025-2026 season playing at the Memorial Arena in the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. Their home arena is College Park Center on the UT Arlington campus, with one exception: They'll be playing their June 27 game against the Indiana Fever, featuring superstar Caitlin Clark, at American Airlines Center in Dallas.

    Fans will have to pony up the big bucks for that epic game, with the price for two tickets starting at $255, although the upper 300 level has not yet been opened for sale. Those wanting to sit near the floor behind the baseline will run themselves a pretty $1,205 for two seats.

    After Clark joined the WNBA in 2024, almost half of the other teams in the league moved their home games against the Fever to larger arenas. All of the other Wings home games are currently scheduled to take place at College Park Center.

    If all goes as planned, 2025 will be the last season for the Wings at that venue. In 2024, the team announced plans to move to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Memorial Arena in Dallas, starting with the 2026 season.

    Bueckers joins the Wings after closing out her college career by winning her first national championship, with Connecticut dominating the previous champions, South Carolina, 82-59. She's considered by many to be the league's next superstar.

    The 2025 Dallas Wings season comes with much anticipation. Since the end of the 2024 season, the Wings have revamped their front office, which included the hiring of Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Curt Miller and Head Coach Chris Koclanes. In addition to the 2025 WNBA Draft Class, Miller made significant roster moves during free agency which included signing reigning WNBA Most Improved Player DiJonai Carrington, 2022 All-Rookie Team pick NaLyssa Smith, former Wings guard Tyasha Harris and 2020 All-WNBA Second Team member Myisha Hines-Allen.

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