Newest Dallas Mavericks players will be active for Tuesday’s game vs. Oklahoma City.

Dallas Mavericks’ trade for Brendan Haywood came with long-term plans in mind at center.

By John Hollinger DALLAS – This may not be the NBA’s greatest weakness, but it’s a weakness nonetheless: The league has been a poor steward of its own history. This can be seen in any number of ways, from the scarce footage of games as recent as 25 years ago, to the lack of quality historic data, to the league’s part-time job of pretending the ABA never existed. But one of the biggest areas the NBA falls short is with its Hall of Fame … or rather, with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts

By John Hollinger DALLAS – “The best laid plans…” goes a well-known lament, and there’s a good reason. As it turns out, not having an etched-in-stone plan is the best plan when it comes to playing point guard. At this afternoon’s media session, Hornets point guard Chris Paul talked about how point guards can’t enter a game thinking about piling up assists, because everything depended on how the defense played him

Lisa Blumenfeld / NBAE via Getty Images Could a team with this tandem give the All-Star squads a game? The All-Star Game is a collection of the best basketball talent in the world, but it rarely produces anything resembling the best basketball. Counter-intuitive as that might seem, the reasons for this annual letdown are fairly obvious

If only the Mavericks could schedule Golden State every night these days. It wasn’t pretty, but Dallas found a way to beat Golden State, 127-117, on Monday at Oracle Arena.

Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images Baron Davis is ready to take over the play calling in Los Angeles The thing you have to realize about Baron Davis is that this wasn’t what he had in mind.

By Chris Sheridan In college at TCU, Kurt Thomas once led the nation in scoring and rebounding, making him one of only three players in NCAA history to do so. Two-and-a-half years ago, his expiring $8 million contract was deemed so unappealing by Suns owner Bob Sarver that Phoenix agreed to surrender two unprotected 1st-round draft picks to Seattle, getting back only a 2nd-rounder in return (the second of those unprotected 1st-round picks goes to the Thunder this June, which is why Phoenix is currently looking for at least one 1st-round pick in any Amare Stoudemire trade).

Those players lucky enough to be invited to All-Star weekend probably have an assortment of goals: To get some rest. To attend this or that party. To rub elbows with corporate sponsors.

Jason Quick of the Oregonian , on an incident that occured during Andre Miller’s 52-point game in Dallas over the weekend: During a timeout with 41 seconds left in regulation, two women walked onto the court and into the Trail Blazers huddle.