Tim Cato

Jul 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tim Cato

Since Luka Dončić entered the NBA as a babyfaced 19-year-old wunderkind, no player in the league has created more 3-pointers for his teammates. Dončić has thrown almost 4,200 passes that have led to attempted 3-pointers, which have resulted in 1,573 made shots. He's delivered them with two hands or one, whipped across the court in a bullet or slung behind his back on the bounce. They've arrived with his eyes never making contact with his target or his body already sprawled onto the floor.

Jul 2, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tim Cato

It's not just which players the Dallas Mavericks have pursued and lost in free agency, but how. In the past decade or so, they've had offseason targets announce they wouldn't be signing with Dallas on Snapchat, on podcasts, on finalist lists that didn't include them. They've missed out on stars who joined years later, shells of their former selves, as some sick consolation prize. They've seen an agent persuade his client to take fractions of the amount they had offered to reach free agency sooner.

Jul 1, 2024 | hawaiitribune-herald.com | Shams Charania |Anthony Slater |Tim Cato |Jovan Buha

Klay Thompson will join the Dallas Mavericks, league sources said Monday, a move that ends his 13-year run as a core member of the Golden State Warriors dynasty. The Warriors will receive two second-round draft picks — Dallas’ 2031 second-round pick and a 2025 least favorable pick between the Denver Nuggets and the Philadelphia 76ers — to complete the sign-and-trade deal, per league sources.

Jun 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tim Cato

Last week, Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison publicly expressed his desire to rerun the team's roster that reached the 2024 NBA Finals. The Mavericks, he said, needed every player to come back "10 to 15 percent better" than last season. "The core is intact," Harrison said on Friday. "If you look at the top seven or eight players that really played, I don't see anything happening with that."Harrison was telling the truth, mostly.

Jun 18, 2024 | nytimes.com | Tim Cato

Dončić trudged to the interview room five minutes after the final buzzer of Game 5 of the NBA Finals, a 106-88 defeat on Monday that, at last, sent him into the offseason. It was a familiar sight: blood showing from his knee, exhaustion evident from his gait, brevity preferred within every answer he gave. Celebratory yells from his opponent sometimes snuck in from the hallways he had taken to this room from the TD Garden court, where the championship platform was still being constructed.