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    Mavs Off to a Good Start

    Dallas Mavericks keep hopes of another NBA title alive with retooled roster

    Matthew Postins
    Oct 31, 2013 | 10:32 am

    I guess the moral of the Gersson Rosas story is that Mark Cuban and Donnie Nelson run the Dallas Mavericks, and if you can’t live with that, then it’s best to move on. So that’s what Rosas did. Granted, the eve of the regular season isn’t great timing. But when you know it’s time to go, you go.

     

    Rosas said in a release that staying with the Mavericks was “not the best fit for me at this point in my career.” Cuban told reporters before Wednesday’s season opener with Atlanta that “it just didn’t work out.” Cuban hired Rosas with the hope that the young rising front office star could come in and help the Mavericks develop young talent, the way he did for the Houston Rockets.

     

    But Rosas reportedly wanted more control over personnel decisions, and that wasn’t going to happen with Nelson in the org chart. Fortunately, that didn’t distract Mavs fans from the opening-night festivities or perhaps the strangest in-game video the Mavericks’ famously quirky video department has ever produced. Four words: Mavs as farm animals.

     
     

      The new paradigm in professional sports is developing young talent. You identify it, you nurture it and you control the costs.

     
     

    Like last year, this is another Mavericks team with high turnover. There are nine new players to go along with the mature core of Dirk Nowitzki, Shawn Marion and Vince Carter. The trio has 44 NBA seasons. The other 12 players — not counting the three rookies — have 51 combined.

     

    “We’re all still getting to know each other, and it’s going to take a while,” Mavs head coach Rick Carlisle said after the game.

     

    If you’re looking for a template for success this season — or what the Mavs hope will be success — it was evident in their 118-109 win over the Hawks.

     

    Nowitzki is still the Dirk we all know. He just has a healthier knee than at this time last year. He finished with 24 points, four rebounds and a couple of key baskets down the stretch that kept the lead comfortable.

     

    The Mavs hope Monta Ellis can be the scorer that keeps the heat off Nowitzki. Mission accomplished against the Hawks. Ellis went off for 32 points.

     

    Ellis said the defense sagged on him most of the night, which led to a lot of pull-up jumpers. He and Nowitzki also excelled in the pick-and-roll.

     

    “He can score in bunches so much it’s crazy,” Nowitzki said. “He can score with the best in the league, and we need him to score.”

     

    The Mavs hope that Ellis, along with new point guard Jose Calderon, can be the facilitators that last year’s guards, Darren Collison and O.J. Mayo, were not. Well, against the Hawks, Calderon dished out 11 assists and Ellis had eight.

     

    The Mavs also hope that veteran center Samuel Dalembert can make them stronger in the middle. He didn’t score much (just four points), but he did grab nine rebounds to lead the team, and the Mavs would love to see that as a season average. In fact, Cuban recently said Dalembert might be the team’s most important player this season.

     

    It wasn’t a perfect night. Nowitzki said the defense needed to get tighter. Carlisle wants to see the Mavs reduce their turnovers. They had 20. Ellis had seven of them.

     

    But this new cast has potential, and the Mavericks are churning personnel in an effort to keep Nowitzki’s hopes of another NBA title afloat. They’re also churning personnel because they haven’t developed enough home-grown talent this past decade, choosing instead to rely on free agents.

     

    The new paradigm in professional sports is developing young talent. You identify it, you nurture it and you control the costs. Cuban doesn’t mind spending money, but he’s made it clear he won’t write luxury tax checks anymore.

     

    Which is exactly why Rosas was hired. And exactly why Rosas leaving the Mavs could be a bigger hit to this team’s future than one might imagine right now, good vibrations of Wednesday’s win aside.

    Dirk Nowitzki had 24 points and four rebounds for the Mavs.

      
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    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man for the Dallas Mavericks

    Associated Press
    Jun 26, 2025 | 8:55 am
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    Cooper Flagg, newest Dallas Mavericks pick

    Cooper Flagg is the new Maine man in Dallas. The Mavericks took the Duke forward with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft on June 25, hoping they have found their next franchise superstar less than five months after trading one away.

    Mavericks fans were furious when Dallas traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers on February 1, some immediately threatening to end their support of the team.

    But the ones who stuck around may quickly love Flagg, the college player of the year who averaged 19.2 points and 7.5 rebounds while leading Duke to the Final Four. The Mavericks quickly announced that Flagg would wear No. 32 in Dallas, where fellow Duke products Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II are on the roster.

    “I’m really excited. I think I keep saying I’m excited to be a sponge, to get down there and just learn, be surrounded by Hall of Fame-caliber guys and just to be able to learn from them,” Flagg said. “It’s going to be an incredible experience.”

    His selection — considered likely ever since Flagg showed off his considerable game last summer after being invited to the U.S. Olympic team's training camp — was a daylong celebration in his home state for the 18-year-old forward from Newport, Maine.

    “It means a lot to me to have the support of the whole state. I know how many people showed up today and supported me at some of the draft parties back home,” Flagg said. “It feels amazing knowing I can inspire younger kids. I was in their shoes really not that long ago, so just to know I can give those kids those feelings and have the whole state behind me, it means a lot.”

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    The backstory
    Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts wasn't thinking even for a second about Cooper Flagg when he started a staff meeting before the draft lottery by saying the club was entering the most important offseason in franchise history.

    The longtime NBA executive and relatively new leader on the business side of the Mavs was thinking about the lingering fallout of the widely reviled Luka Doncic trade, not the club turning a 1.8% chance into winning the rights to draft the teenaged star from Duke.

    “Never, ever did anybody in our organization ever even say what would happen if we win. That's a waste of time,” Welts told The Associated Press recently. “Like, it's unbelievable. It was hard to even get your head around.”

    The self-inflicted wounds were numerous after general manager Nico Harrison's stunning decision to send Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis in early February.

    Fans were incensed. Season-ticket holders were canceling. Potential new sponsors were telling Welts they'd have to think about it.
    Just like that, the Mavs had a vision to sell of a potential superstar who could someday be the face of the franchise — as Doncic was, and fellow European superstar Dirk Nowitzki before him. Just like that, despair turned to hope for plenty of people, including those under Welts who had spent weeks dealing with the wrath of a spurned fan base.

    Before the Doncic trade, Welts had already made a decision to raise season-ticket prices. He told the AP he had to back off on the size of the increase as he watched the visceral reaction unfold.

    Welts has seen plenty in nearly 50 years with the NBA, including time in the league office and stints with Phoenix and Golden State. That's not to say the Doncic fallout didn't have a profound impact on the 72-year-old Welts, who had come out of retirement to replace Cynt Marshall just a month and a half earlier. It just means he has weathered a few storms.

    And now the Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer isn't so sure he's ever seen the sun come back out so quickly.

    “The thing that I learned through all of this experience was what I knew was like this amazing emotional tie between this team and these fans was even stronger than I think anybody who hadn’t lived here and been a part of it could ever imagine,” Welts said. “Just the outpouring of pure joy and the idea of a generational player that could change our fortunes for the next 15 years would land with us by pure luck.”

    Part of what made the Doncic deal so hard to believe was unloading a 25-year-old superstar in his prime nine months after leading Dallas to the NBA Finals for the first time in 13 years. The Mavs lost to Boston in five games last June.

    Harrison's reasoning was prioritizing defense, and his belief that Davis and Irving were a good enough tandem to keep Dallas as a championship contender. Flagg's potential gave that notion a boost.

    “I feel like I’m a broken record, but the team that we intended to put on the floor, which you guys saw for 2 1/2 quarters, that’s a championship-caliber team,” Harrison said. “And so you might not like it, but that’s the fact, it is.”

    Welts, who believes the Mavs have work to do to bring their basketball and business sides together, will spend plenty of time during the early days of the Flagg era sharing his vision for a new arena.

    It's a big reason Welts took the job, after spending seven years with Golden State on an arena plan that moved the Warriors across the bay to San Francisco from Oakland. He says all the talks are focused on keeping the team in Dallas.

    While the casino-centered Adelson and Dumont families of Las Vegas, in the middle of their second full year as owners of the Mavs, wanted gambling to be part of the formula for a new arena, the political realities in Texas have shifted the focus away from that idea for now.

    There's a new focus for Welts in what seems certain will be the final stop in an eventful NBA career: building everything around another potentially generational star after the Mavs jettisoned the one they had.

    “Don't make this sound like I'm suggesting that everyone is forgiven,” Welts said. “Luka will always be a big part of what this organization is. But for a large number of fans, it is a pathway — it's not a pathway, it's like a four-lane highway into being able to care about the Mavericks the way they cared about the Mavericks before.”

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