Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks is a basketball club based in American professional Dallas. I play in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Western Conference Southwest Division. The squad plays their home games in the American Airlines Arena, where they compete with the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars. The Mavericks, led by All-Stars Rolando Blackman and Mark Aguirre, had been a regular playoff team in the 1980s. The squad suffered in the 1990s and began a period of rebuilding. The franchise's fortunes would change significantly in 1998 with the arrival of Dirk Nowitzki, who will become the centre of franchise history's most successful era, leading the team to its first NBA title in 2011. Because of the 2017 season, the Mavericks have sold out 707 consecutive games since December 15, 2002, the longest consistently running sellout streak in North America's major league sports. In 1978, Californian businessman Garn Eckardt met Dallas lawyer Doug Adkins and revealed that he was seeking to raise money to bring an NBA team to the city. Asking for a possible match, Adkins recommended one of his clients, Don Carter, the Home Interiors and Gifts owner. Negotiations with Eckardt fell apart, but Carter stayed interested in the business as a gift to his wife Linda, who played basketball while at Duncanville High School. Buffalo Braves president and general manager Norm Sonju developed an interest in bringing the NBA down to Dallas at the same time as he investigated possible new locations for the ailing franchise. After the Braves headed to California as the San Diego Clippers, Sonju eventually returned to Texas and was met by Major Robert Folsom, one of the city's last major basketball team members and general president, the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association, who transferred to San Antonio in 1973 to form the San Antonio Spurs. Sonju and Carter intended to buy both the Milwaukee Bucks and the Kansas City Kings but the conflict over the move stalled the negotiations and forced them both to settle for an expansion franchise. Rolando Blackman led the Mavericks in the 1986 NBA All-Star Game Dallas hosted at Reunion Arena. The 1985–86 Mavericks were second in scoring at 115.3 points per game, winning their third straight playoff appearance. In the 1st round, they defeated Utah, three games to one. In the conference semi-finals, we ran into the Lakers once again, and L.A. Defeated at Houston, in six rounds. Yet four of those games were decided by four points or less, and Dallas won two of them, leaving Mavericks fans room to hope they could finally defeat the Lakers in the coming season. The Mavs drafted Michigan centre Roy Tarpley with the seventh overall pick, who would go on to become a very talented but troublesome member of the roster. With the Mavericks, the 1996–97 season was a year of transition as they basically re-designed their entire roster; for the Dallas franchise, 27 new teams saw action, setting an all-time NBA record. And by the time the season was over, rookie centre Samaki Walker was off the opening-day roster. The first big change came in December, when guards traded for the Phoenix Suns to Jason Kidd, Loren Meyer and Tony Dumas for Michael Finley and Sam Cassell, and forward A. C. Blue. By far the most notable of these signings was Finley, who, during his first half-season in Dallas, went on to average at or above 20 ppg for at least the next seven years of his Mavericks career. He made two visits to the NBA All-Star Game, and played in all of the Mavs 'games before the 2004–05 season. During the NBA season 2001–02, the Mavericks radically updated their logo and uniforms with a new midnight blue, royal blue, and Dallas Cowboys-inspired silver colour scheme. The new patches are a script called "Austin" on the home and on the road jerseys. "Dallas" is in dark blue on the home jersey around the chest and the numbers are in royal blue with silver trim while "Dallas" is in gold on the road jersey, with white trim in purple.