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1 week ago | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
It was a crisp December evening, and Beal Gymnasium in South Portland, Maine, was packed to the rafters. The Class A Nokomis Warriors had traveled south looking for a challenge, having scheduled a preseason test against a South Portland team that a few months later would go undefeated and win the Class AA state title. In their second game of the day, with just over nine minutes left, Cooper Flagg caught the ball on the wing.
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1 month ago | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
Luka Dončić walked off the court after a season-ending loss, facing tough questions and a long summer. Mavericks fans, no doubt, kept an eye on the Los Angeles Lakers’ postseason run, however brief it was. Their first-round exit only accelerates the already challenging task of building a championship contender around Dončić. But that’s the Lakers’ problem.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
The area inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse set aside for visiting team press conferences is, in fact, a small locker room that is converted on game days. Sitting in front of the media, surrounded by empty lockers, Jason Kidd attempts to put a stunning last-minute loss to the Indiana Pacers into perspective. “They’re giving everything they have,” he says about his players. For the fourth time in two weeks, Dallas, dealing with a rash of injuries, suited up the league-minimum eight players.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
The dog days are here. The holidays are over, and the treadmill is staring at me, waiting to be used again. NBA players are almost halfway through the regular season, so their bodies are starting to feel it. The All-Star break is close enough that visions of a vacation can be briefly entertained. Trade rumors begin to swirl and roam the ether, further cluttering the mind.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
The game clock inside Ball Arena in Denver showed more than seven minutes remained until the start of the third quarter on Sunday night. The halftime act had cleared out, and the court was empty. Except for one solitary player. Klay Thompson had come out early from the locker room to put up shots. After a torrid start to his career as a Maverick, he is looking to rediscover his rhythm on his new team as he prepares to play his old team for the first time.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
There hasn’t been this much excitement leading up to a Mavericks season since 2006. A trip to the Finals last season has given fans a taste of the good life, and now they want to see their team take the final step. The Mavs responded to the disappointment of their Finals loss by finally landing that coveted free agent, in this case Klay Thompson.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris
The call was inevitable. My yiayia (the Greek term for grandmother) was on the phone telling me to stay safe inside because the weather was getting bad. She called every time storm clouds rolled in. I was young and I would laugh, assuring her everything was OK. I wasn’t old enough to know the whole story. I think of her calls after seeing that the movie Twisters has made over $200 million in global box office. Why? Because tornadoes are more than entertainment for me.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
The Mavericks made the NBA Finals last month and followed that up with an offseason that finally landed a coveted free agent. This team is better than it was two weeks ago thanks to the arrival of Klay Thompson as well as the sneaky good additions of Naji Marshall and Quentin Grimes. It feels like the beginning of great things to come. However, the recently completed season and this offseason are a microcosm of a much larger body of work. How did we get here?
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
Green and yellow confetti rained down and screams of joy surrounded me as I took off my headset, packed my bag, and exited the court at TD Garden in Boston on Monday night. As the pain of the Mavericks’ Finals loss kicked in, my thoughts turned to the journey Dallas took over the last 14 long months to get to this spot while falling short of the ultimate goal.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
dmagazine.com | Brian Dameris |Mike Piellucci
Luka Doncic wanted to set the tone in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals against the Minnesota Timberwolves. His 10 points in the first 2:33 did just that, and the Mavericks never looked back. He is “that guy,” and he proved it by putting the team on his back to start the game. Then Kyrie Irving joined the party and matched Doncic’s 36 points to lead Dallas to a series-clinching victory. But that celebration is over.
