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NBA Power Rankings: Heat Still Hot

January 11, 2011   Brett Pollakoff   No comments

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Surprise! The red-hot Miami Heat are still streaking, putting some distance between themselves and the rest of the top-heavy Eastern Conference while challenging the San Antonio Spurs for the best record in the NBA. In fact, Miami is the only constant atop our rankings, which otherwise feature a completely shuffled top 10.

Can the Heat — who have posted a 22-1 record since Nov. 27 — keep it up? Or will injuries slow LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and company like they have the Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks and Spurs? Only time will tell. But for now, there’s no team better.

 

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Kemba Walker’s Late Heroics Lift UConn Over Texas in OT

January 08, 2011   Terrance Harris   No comments

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AUSTIN, Texas — UConn guard Kemba Walker had certainly experienced better scoring days, but still there wasn’t any doubt whose hands the ball would be in during the final seconds of overtime against Texas on Saturday afternoon.

UConn coach Jim Calhoun had designed the perfect isolation play and Walker (photo right, in blue) had the desired one-on-one matchup against Dogus Balbay around the top of the key. All that was left was to clear out his own big man, Alex Oriakhi, from the lane.

If the frantic waving of his free hand didn’t do it, the glare he sent Oriakhi’s way did.

That was the opening the nation’s leading scorer needed to drive on Balbay, get a little separation and pull up for the 18-foot fade-away jumper with five seconds remaining to send the No. 8 Huskies home with a big-time 82-81 overtime non-conference road win in front of 16,734 at the Erwin Center.

“It was a play for me to go one on one from the top on Balbay,” Walker said of what ultimately became the game-sealing basket. “My teammates spread out and if I didn’t have the shot I was going to kick it but I was fortunate to get a little bit of space and I made a shot.”

 

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Caron Butler Has Knee Surgery, Will Miss Rest of Season

January 04, 2011   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Dallas Mavericks forward Caron Butler (@realtuffjuice) will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to repair a ruptured right patellar tendon on Tuesday.

Butler tweeted a picture of himself in scrubs and in a hospital bed just before entering surgery. Butler, the Mavs’ third-leading scorer at 15.0 points per game, ruptured the tendon on Saturday in Milwaukee, which is 30 miles north of Butler’s hometown of Racine, Wis.

Art Garcia of NBA.com reports that the Mavericks may look internally — Shawn Marion — to replace Butler in the starting lineup. Garcia also reports that the Mavs may ask for the disabled player exception, which would be about $5.3 million or half of Butler’s salary.

 

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Caron Butler’s Season Could Be Over

January 03, 2011   FanHouse Staff   No comments

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Caron ButlerCaron Butler could miss at least a couple of months — and possibly the rest of the season — with a serious knee injury suffered Saturday night in Milwaukee.

The Dallas Mavericks won’t make an official announcement until reviewing Butler’s MRI results, but a source close to the injured forward confirmed to The Associated Press that the initial diagnosis is a torn patellar tendon.

Butler has averaged 15.0 points in 29.9 minutes a game this season. He scored a season-high 30 points against the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday, one game before suffering the injury.

No matter how long he’s sidelined, Butler’s injury is just the latest obstacle for the short-handed Mavericks. Shawn Marion returned Sunday after missing a game with a thigh contusion, but Dirk Nowitzki is still day-to-day with a sprained knee. The Mavericks have lost three of four in Nowitzki’s absence.

The loss of two starters forced coach Rick Carlisle to get creative with his lineup Sunday in Cleveland. Marion, who’s come off the bench in all but five games this season, started at power forward. Jason Terry started his sixth game of the year at shooting guard, pushing DeShawn Stevenson to small forward.

 

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Caron Butler Suffers ‘Potentially Serious’ Knee Injury

January 01, 2011   FanHouse Newswire   No comments

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Caron ButlerMILWAUKEE (AP) — Dallas forward Caron Butler left the Mavericks’ game against Milwaukee in the first quarter Saturday night after injuring his right knee.

The extent of Caron’s injury wasn’t known after Dallas’ 99-87 loss, but the Mavericks were preparing to play an extended time without the 6-foot-7 forward who entered the night averaging 15.4 points.

“We’re afraid that it’s potentially serious,” Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said. “We’ll find out (Sunday) where things are at, probably later in the day.”

Butler was to stay in Milwaukee overnight and return to Dallas on Sunday to be further examined.

After Dallas’ Jason Kidd hit a shot, Butler went down to the floor grasping his knee. He rolled over onto his stomach as play continued before Dallas was able to call a timeout.

The training staffs from both teams assisted Butler, who slapped the floor in frustration. Two minutes later, Butler — from nearby Racine — was helped to his feet and limped to the locker room under his own power.

In April 2007 at the Bradley Center, Butler broke his right hand while with the Wizards when he was challenging a shot at the backboard. He missed the rest of the season.

The Mavericks played without Dirk Nowitzki (sprained right knee) and Shawn Marion (thigh).

 

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Tyson Chandler’s Play Helping Newly Defensive-Minded Mavs

December 07, 2010   Sam Amick   No comments

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You’d think they’d be crossing fingers in Dallas these days, just hoping this winning streak that sits at nine straight keeps growing and that this whole The-Big-D-Stands-For-Defense campaign continues.

But they really should be crossing their toes, just for symbolism’s sake.

Everyone except for Tyson Chandler, of course.

Remember the man with the most controversial toe in league history, the big one on the left foot that led to a rescinded trade between New Orleans and Oklahoma City in February 2009? Thunder general manager Sam Presti identified Chandler as the perfect piece to occupy his team’s paint and complement his young stable of stallions, only to decide against it after seeing the big man’s physical.

It was a calculated choice made with the advice of Carlan Yates, an Oklahoma-City based doctor who — as irony would have it — had performed the surgery to repair Chandler’s left big toe after the 2006-07 season and subsequently ruled him a risk. Nineteen months later, the only red flags being waved near Chandler are the ones in front of the rim Dallas is defending in an NBA arena near you.

 

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Caron Butler Knows a Winning Season Helps Summer Options

October 21, 2010   Tim Povtak   No comments

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Caron ButlerORLANDO, Fla. — Dallas small forward Caron Butler sounded like he would be going to the pet store to pick out a puppy when he started talking Wednesday night about his upcoming free agency.

“I could have the opportunity to take the pick of the litter,” Butler told FanHouse before his Mavericks lost to the Magic. “If everything goes well this season, it will be my choice, take your pick, wherever I want to go.”

Butler, 30, may be coming off his worst season in years, split between Washington and Dallas, but he is expecting a quick turnaround in his contract year.

Even with limited minutes of the exhibition schedule, he has reached double figure scoring and had at least five rebounds in four of his last five games.

He showed up for training camp about 10 pounds lighter than a year ago after coach Rick Carlisle told him what he wanted this season during his exit interview last spring. He wanted Butler more explosive, quicker, able to reach the free throw line more often. Butler responded by working harder than he ever had before in the offseason.

 

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David Stern Tells Gilbert Arenas Not to Discuss Gun Incident

September 22, 2010   Brett Pollakoff   No comments

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The biggest story of the first half of the 2009-10 NBA season was undoubtedly the one involving Gilbert Arenas, Javaris Crittenton and guns being flashed in the Washington Wizards‘ locker room.

According to Michael Lee of The Washington Post, NBA commissioner David Stern is doing everything in his power to leave the incident where it belongs: back in 2009.

Stern spoke with Arenas this week, and he informed him that anything is fair game for him to discuss moving forward — except, of course, the gun incident that took place last December, which ended up getting him suspended for the remainder of the season.

 

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The Works: Mavs Both Deep and Shallow, Abolish ‘Over-and-Back’

September 17, 2010   Bethlehem Shoals and Tom Ziller   No comments

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Today in The Works: Rob Peterson (@ShotDrJr) argues for the end of the backcourt violation and Andrew Bogut sounds off about racial sensitivity in Australia.

But first, we investigate the depth of the Mavericks.

Jason KiddPlumbing the Depth: When asked if his Mavericks can defeat the two-time defending NBA champion L.A. Lakers, franchise owner Mark Cuban argued that the team’s depth will allow Dallas to reign supreme. The actual quote, from a Q&A with SportsDayDFW, is a bit more rah-rah: “Hell yes. We’ve got the size now. We’ve got the depth. We’ve got a lot more depth than the Lakers. It’s not even close there.”

Uhh …

Cuban is apparently arguing that having a better ninth or 10th man is a major factor in winning major games. To the contrary, research has repeatedly shown that a team’s top three or so players account for much of the success or failure of a team. Sports economist David Berri, with whom I frequently disagree, has applied the Pareto Principle to the NBA, which has shown that using his (controversial) production metric, a team’s top three players generally produce 80 percent of a team’s wins. And while in basketball circles Berri is a divisive figure, this point is actually widely accepted. It makes intuitive sense — your top players play more minutes, thus having a larger potential footprint (for better or worse) on a game. And the math seems to back it up.

So what about the Mavericks’ depth?

 

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Rodrigue Beaubois Faces Surgery, Will Likely Miss Mavs Training Camp

August 10, 2010   Tom Ziller   No comments

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Rodrigue Beaubois, the Mavericks‘ 22-year-old Guadeloupean guard, will undergo surgery after breaking his foot last week while training with the French national team, reports Jeff Caplan of ESPNDallas.com. Beaubois will be on the shelf for three months, likely knocking him out of action for all of the Mavs’ training camp and preseason.

The Mavericks had been considering making Beaubois, who is a scorer by nature, the team’s starting two-guard. Beaubois vacillated between the rotation and the end of the bench for coach Rick Carlisle last season in the guard’s rookie season. By the time the Mavericks were on the brink of playoff elimination, Beaubois had drawn enough attention to put Carlisle in a tough spot, considering the wing and guard depth his team boasts.

Dallas has veteran Jason Kidd and Puerto Rican gunner J.J. Barea at point guard, and veteran Jason Terry at shooting guard. (The team also added two-guard Dominique Jones in the draft.) After a midseason trade for Caron Butler and Brendan Haywood, Carlisle often played Butler at shooting guard and Shawn Marion at small forward; the idea going forward had been to slot Beaubois at the two, Butler at the three and to bring Marion off the bench.

 

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