Dallas Mavericks

New Dallas Mavericks coach looking to hit high notes

By JEFF CAPLAN DALLAS -- Rick Carlisle has yet to coach a game for the Dallas Mavericks, yet the local sports pages have been popping with photographs of him stalking the sideline, arm raised in play-calling mode, his long, slender fingers contorted in various shapes as if he'd become possessed and forced to form strange shadow puppets. For more than two weeks as the Mavs courted and signed ...

Dallas Mavericks' Nowitzki feels change is good

The changes, they are a-coming for the Dallas Mavericks. One of the first may include overtures to center DeSagana Diop, who was traded in February to New Jersey as part of the Jason Kidd deal.

Rick Carlisle says Dallas Mavericks will be a running team

By JAIME ARON DALLAS — Rick Carlisle is ready to let Jason Kidd and the Dallas Mavericks run. And run. And run some more. “When you play with Jason Kidd, you have to open it up,” Carlisle said Wednesday. “Our wing guys are going to have to get conditioned to really run. The thing Jason Kidd does better than probably any point guard in the league is push the ball ahead.” Carlisle was hired over ...

Slight delay on Dallas Mavericks' new coaching staff

The staff that new Dallas Mavericks' coach Rick Carlisle will put together may not be known for a while because some of his top choices are in the running for NBA head coaching positions.

Carlisle signs deal with Dallas Mavericks

Now it is official: The Dallas Mavericks' new head coach is Rick Carlisle. After reaching an oral agreement Friday night, Carlisle signed the four-year, $17.5-million contract on Saturday, the team announced. The Mavs will hold a news conference Wednesday to officially introduce Carlisle as the franchise's ninth head coach. Carlisle is 281-211 over six seasons, two with Detroit and four with ...

Dallas Mavericks ready to make Carlisle their coach

By JEFF CAPLAN At the stroke of midnight Wednesday in Greece, Rick Carlisle's agent received the contract from the Dallas Mavericks and began to give it a moonlit combing. As long as no last-minute snags disrupt the week-long negotiation, the Mavs will introduce the defensive-minded Carlisle on Friday as the franchise's ninth head coach. "We're still moving forward," Warren LeGarie, Carlisle's ...