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CHICAGO — Mavericks assistant general manager Michael Finley showed little emotion as executives for 14 non-playoff teams, a gaggle of reporters and a handful of NBA officials huddled Tuesday night outside a discreet, security laden room where the league’s future hung in the pre-draft lottery balance.

While everyone else wants to win the lottery, the Mavs have to hope not to lose it.

Not every team has had the luck of the ping pong balls with them.

Phoenix was trailing by a whopping 30 points at halftime during Game 6, a mirror image of last season’s Game 7 debacle vs. the Mavericks.

Says lawyer Adam Moscowitz, who has partnered with David Boies on an all-out crypto assault: "Celebrities won’t go near crypto ads now, and we’ve had a big role in that.”

The Mavericks, Pelicans, Nets, and #Rockets are all believed to have interest in hiring James Borrego as an assistant coach, per veteran NBA scribe Marc Stein.

The Lakers have advanced to the Western Conference semifinals despite not trading for Kyrie Irving during the regular season when the guard was on the Brooklyn Nets

April 2014 was a different sports time around here. Ron Washington still managed the Rangers. “Dez Caught It” was nine months away from being a fan’s outcry. Monta Ellis played 82 games, one of five Mavericks (including Dirk Nowitzki) to play at least 80 that season — so the fans’…

The Kyrie Irving trade to the Dallas Mavericks from the Brooklyn Nets was always a bit of a Hail Mary.

The Dallas Mavericks rested a host of starting players - including eight-time All-Star Kyrie Irving - in the loss to the Chicago Bulls and the NBA have fined the franchise for their actions

The NBA penalized the team for “conduct detrimental to the league” for violating resting policy