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The NBA today announced that the league's 66th season will tip off Christmas Day with a five-game slate, contingent on timely ratification of the new collective bargaining agreement. Kia NBA Tip-Off '11 will launch on TNT with one of the NBA's oldest and most intense rivalries. The Boston Celtics, featuring their ...

The Dallas Mavericks are the 2011 NBA Champions. Mavericks finished the series, 4-2 against Miami Heat. Mavs beat the Heat in Game 6 of the best-of-seven series, 105-95. Dirk Nowitzki has 21 points and 11 rebounds to finished the game.

The only problem Dirk Nowitzki is having with his injured finger is finding a comfortable way of protecting it. At a shootaround Thursday, about nine hours before Game 2 of the NBA finals, Nowitzki wore a hard splint on the back of his left middle finger, secured by ...

The Dallas Mavericks have signed forward Sasha Pavlovic to a 10-day contract. The deal Monday comes after All-Star forward Dirk Nowitzki has missed seven consecutive games with a right knee injury. The Mavericks are also without Caron Butler, who is likely done for the season because of a ...

Dirk Nowitzki has returned to the Mavericks' game against Memphis after leaving with a sprained ankle in the second quarter. Nowitzki's ankle was retaped at halftime and he returned to start the second half Wednesday night. The 7-foot forward went down under the Memphis basket with about 3:46 left before ...

A former girlfriend of Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for violating probation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Cristal Taylor admitted in court on Monday that she failed to check in with her probation officer in a 12-year-old forgery and theft case. She ...

For the 10th straight season, the Mavs' forward averaged over 20 ppg (22.7 ppg) and earned his fourth career All-NBA first team honor.

LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the 2008-09 Most Valuable Player presented by Kia Motors, was a unanimous selection to the 2008-09 All-NBA First Team, the NBA announced today. Joining James on the First Team are Kobe ...

The Denver Nuggets are leaving all the animosity with the Dallas Mavericks' players, fans and owner behind and heading to their first Western Conference finals since 1985. Behind 30 points from Carmelo Anthony and 28 from Chauncey Billups, the Nuggets beat the Mavericks 124-110 on Wednesday night to wrap up their ...

So much for the idea that the Dallas Mavericks would be devastated by the way Game 3 ended. Dirk Nowitzki wasn't about to let them get swept. Nowitzki scored 19 of his 44 points in the fourth quarter, including a high-arching shot with 1:05 left that put the Mavericks ahead for ...