Here are some highlights:Comment From Cliff Dirk Nowitzki seemed to indicate that if Lamar Odom puts in the work, he will get out of his slump. Are the Mavericks feeling he isn't pulling his weight or am I reading too much into that?Sefko: I'm glad...

I've gotten the same vibes everybody else has gotten about the Mavericks having the inside track to Williams. And it wouldn't surprise me a bit if they both ended up here. Comment From Derrick Is Dirk Nowitzki back to being the MVP of this team. He...

Or maybe the next coming of Tim Tebow. Or perhaps some kind of mix of the two. SI was also courteous enough to point out that the last athlete to appear on back-to-back covers of its magazine was Dirk Nowitzki in June of 2011. That may or may not have...

In a game Dallas trailed by double digits but nearly came back and won, Nowitzki just could not locate the magic that had defined his 2011 postseason. He went 2-for-15 from the field, and the Mavericks lost. Dirk Nowitzki got the benefit of the doubt...

The team has now lost 5 out of their last 6 games and 3 of those losses were to teams under .500 and not expected to make [...] It was another big night for the reigning NBA Finals MVP. In the first quarter of the Dallas Maverick’s 89-73 win over the...

Bryant hit #5 on the NBA all-time scoring list earlier this month, and now, another superstar in the league enters the list at #20. The Dallas Mavericks' German superstar Dirk Nowitzki Nowitzki moved into 20th on the list Monday night (February 20) with...

While this has drawn quite a bit of attention, it was far from the only achievement worth noting. Quietly but surely, Nowitzki's veteran teammate Jason Kidd became the second-greatest steal artist of all-time. With the interception of an errant Ray...

DALLAS -- Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki has moved into the top 20 on the NBA career scoring list. Nowitzki moved into 20th on the list Monday with seven points in the first quarter in a game against Boston. That gave Nowitzki 23,335 points, one...

Kobe Bryant doesn't have to be playing the Mavericks to trash talk Dirk Nowitzki. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar completed that task during a game against the Portland Trailblazers Monday night.Bryant did his best Nowitzki impression on a step-back...

It might have also made sense because Carmelo Anthony was coming back and he is …YAHOO! However, Love did only shoot seven-for-23 and started off by shooting just two-of-13 in the early going. Yet Dirk Nowitzki started rather slowly against...

With the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season at the halfway mark, SI.com's NBA writers make their picks for the league's top performers. (All stats and records are through Feb. 20.) Ian Thomsen James is unsurpassed statistically (27.9 points per game with...

The (shorthanded) San Antonio Spurs quietly won their 11th straight, while Derrick Rose returned to the tune of 23-6-5 in a relatively easy win vs. Atlanta and the Dallas Mavericks rebounded from Sunday’s loss to New York with a quick dispatching of...

The 18-year veteran intercepted a pass from Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen as he drove the lane and got caught in no-man's land. The steal led to a Dirk Nowitzki basket. "Well because Mike is everybody's idol, he played both ends of the court," Kidd...

Nation Dallas, Jonathan Tjarks) Dirk Nowitzki continued his climb up the NBA's record chart Monday night, when he passed Robert Parrish, a former Boston Celtics center, on the NBA's all-time scoring list. By the end of the year, Dirk will likely have...

21, 2012 Feb 21 12:23 PM CT Dirk Nowitzki was on Kobe Bryant’s mind long before the Lakers boarded their flight to Dallas for Wednesday night’s appearance at the American Airlines Center. Kobe reached into Dirk’s bag of tricks during the third quarter...

We set that as a goal from day one, and I think we’ve been able to, for the most part, maintain it. This year, we’ve taken it obviously to another level and regardless of personnel.” A few more notes from the Mavs’ win: 1. Who's next on Dirk's hit...

The Celtics showed some list with a 11-2 run to cut it to 68-53 until Shawn Marion ended the period with an improbable tip of a Lamar Odom shot. Third quarter, 8:45 Mavericks 54-36: Exactly what the Celtics wanted to avoid, an early Mavericks spurt to...

Soon thereafter, Prince disclosed that Frank asked him to try to stay positive, and let it show in his expressions, during the difficult transition for a young team playing without benefit of a real training camp. Prince's season changed after that...

Paul Pierce had 20 points and Ray Allen added 15, but the Celtics couldn’t find much offense beyond those two, and Pierce had 5 of the team’s 17 turnovers. On the other side of the ball, Dirk Nowitzki passed Robert Parish for 20th on the all-time...