Mavs Courtside View

Reminder: Hoop Troop Tryout

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:44:00 PDT

What: Mavs Dr Pepper Hoop Troop and Best Western Party Patrol Tryouts When: Saturday, September 13th, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Where: American Airlines Center Practice Court More Info: The Dr Pepper Hoop...

Ike postpones Bass-Pacman Beach Battle

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:35:00 PDT

The Celebrity Beach Battle, hosted by Brandon Bass and Adam "Pacman" Jones, set for Saturday, Sept. 13th, has been postponed due to the upcoming weather conditions expected from Hurricane Ike. The...

Mavs & Carter host Blood Drive

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:09:00 PDT

What: Mavs and Carter BloodCare to Host Blood Drive When: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Where: Irving Mall (Southeast side adjacent to Fuddruckers) 3880 Irving Mall, Irving, TX...

NBA TV announces Fan Night

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:09:00 PDT

To help celebrate its 10th year, NBA TV is offering up a free preview week and a new interactive feature called Fan Night. For the first time ever, fans will have the chance to vote for games they...

Community Tickets available for kids

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:21:00 PDT

Do you know of group of deserving kids who would like to come to a Mavs game? Well, there's a program designed to do just that. The Dallas Mavericks Community Ticket Block Program provides the...

New Fan Shop Opening in Plano

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:00 PDT

What: Grand Opening weekend of the Dallas Mavericks Ultimate Fan Shop at The Shops at Willow Bend When: Friday, September 5th through Sunday, September 7th Where: The Shops at Willow Bend 6121 West...

Individual game tickets on sale soon

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:54:00 PDT

The Dallas Mavericks have announced the on-sale dates for single-game tickets for the preseason and regular season: • Preseason Single-Game Tickets will go on sale Monday, September 8 at 10 a.m....

Carlisle rounds out staff

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:50:00 PDT

The Dallas Mavericks announced today that Dwane Casey, Terry Stotts, Mario Elie and Tom Sterner will complete Head Coach Rick Carlisle’s coaching staff. Popeye Jones and Brad Davis remain with the...

Jet hosts Autobahn Celebrity Golf Classic

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:41:00 PDT

Just weeks before hitting the court for the Dallas Mavericks, Jason Terry will hit the links with other local celebrities as he hosts the 2008 Autobahn Celebrity Golf Classic. This is the first time...

Southwest Division: Outlooks

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:43:00 PDT

The Southwest Division is arguably the toughest in the NBA, but is it tough enough to wrestle the trophy away from Boston? I bet the folks in Big D, Big Easy, Bayou City and Alamo City seem to think...

Hoop Troop Tryout

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:10:00 PDT

The Mavs Dr Pepper Hoop Troop and Best Western Party Patrol will be holding tryouts for its 2008-09 squads on Saturday, September 13th on the Mavs practice court at American Airlines Center....

Southwest Division: Summer League

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:59:00 PDT

Gerald Green and O.J. Mayo were able to light up the guys in summer league, but are they ready for prime time in the rugged Southwest Division? What about the new faces in Houston, San Antone and the...

Casey's Journal: The End

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:06:00 PDT

(Mavs trainer Casey Smith also performed those duties for Team USA. He kept a journal on life at the Olympics in Beijing. This is the last entry.) So I am on a plane from Minneapolis to Dallas. It...

Gold medalist Kidd in select company

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:23:00 PDT

The following was released today by the NBA office: The U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team defeated Spain in Sunday’s gold medal game in Beijing, bringing the total to 24 current or former NBA...

NBA 101: Basketball for Women

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:06:00 PDT

Attention all ladies! Here's your chance to go behind the scenes and learn basic basketball fundamentals from Mavs players, coaches, and staff. Get all the inside scoop on the Mavs at NBA 101! Click...

Devean George re-signed

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:02:00 PDT

DALLAS— The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have re-signed forward Devean George. Per team policy, terms of the deal were undisclosed. George, a nine-year veteran, played his first seven...

Casey's Journal: Wow

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:05:00 PDT

(Mavs trainer Casey Smith also performed those duties for Team USA. He kept a journal on life at the Olympics in Beijing. This one sums it all up.)It is 5:15 am and I am getting ready to check out of...

Beach volleyball: Brandon and Pacman

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:07:00 PDT

Brandon Bass and Adam "Pacman" Jones are teaming up to host the First Annual Celebrity Volleyball Beach Battle on Sept. 13 at the Yucatan Beach Club in Coppell. Josh Howard, Jason Terry, J.J. Barea...

Win an autographed Dirk shirt

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:54:00 PDT

The good folks over at 41-world.com, Dirk's official site, have devised a 41-question quiz. There's still time to enter and the winner gets Dirk's autographed t-shirt from the Nike Human Race that...

Casey's Journal: Gold

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:23:00 PDT

(Mavs trainer Casey Smith is also performing those duties for Team USA. He's keeping a journal on life at the Olympics in Beijing.) Well it really is 4:41am here in Beijing when I start this letter,...

Casey's Journal: The Surreal Life

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:13:00 PDT

(Mavs trainer Casey Smith is also performing those duties for Team USA. He's keeping a journal on life at the Olympics in Beijing.) Three years, over 30 games played together, well over 16 weeks on...

Southwest Division: Major Moves

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:33:00 PDT

Ron Artest is in H-town, the youthful Grizz decided to go Greene ... and found Love, those old Spurs are trying to get young, the Hornets brought in a two-time champ and your Mavs swapped out...

Casey's Journal: Hangin' with Phelps

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:03:00 PDT

(Mavs trainer Casey Smith is also performing those duties for Team USA. He's keeping a journal on life at the Olympics in Beijing.) Well, it is Wednesday morning here in China, and the big push to...

Olympics end for Dirk

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:53:00 PDT

The summer of 2008 is one Dirk Nowitzki will always remember. If qualifying for the Olympics wasn't emotional enough, the Big German hoisted his country's flag at the Opening Ceremonies. It didn't...

China outlasts Germany

noreply@blogger.com (Art Garcia) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:14:00 PDT

Dirk Nowitzki's first and possibly only Olympic experience is coming to an end. The Germans are 1-3 in pool play with Team USA the last foe on the docket. Here's the AP account of China's win over...