Dallas Mavericks

Dallas Mavericks

NBA appoints new Competition Committee (The Associated Press)

NEW YORK (AP) Coaches Doc Rivers of Boston, Rick Carlisle of Dallas and Lionel Hollins of Memphis have been named to the NBA’s Competition Committee.

Mavericks Keep Title Hopes Alive with Rick Carlisle Signing: Fan’s Take (Yahoo! Contributor Network)

On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, the Dallas Mavericks took the first step in maintaining their championship-caliber team by re-signing their head coach Rick Carlisle to a four-year extension. Since joining the team in 2008, the Mavericks have gone 198-114 in the regular season. Despite fielding a winning team every year, and even capturing the franchise’s first championship last season, Carlisle is often overlooked when discussing the top coaches in the NBA.

Coaches, owners have new voice in suggesting changes (AFP)

Rick Carlisle, coach of the reigning champion Dallas Mavericks, and Dan Gilbert, the club owner spurned by LeBron James, are among 10 people named on Wednesday to the NBA’s new competition committee.

Pacers’ Larry Bird is NBA Executive of the Year (The Associated Press)

Everything always seemed to come so easily for Larry Bird on a basketball court.

David West hustles Pacers off court after Game 2 win, but not quick enough for Dwyane Wade (VIDEO) (Ball Don’t Lie)

After Chris Bosh’s Game 1 abdominal strain changed the landscape of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the Indiana Pacers took advantage of their opportunity in Game 2, scratching out a 78-75 win over the Heat on Tuesday night. It wasn’t pretty — the two teams combined to miss 97 field goals in 48 minutes of basketball, including 10 in the final 2:15 of the fourth quarter, as well as 17 free throws, including six in the last 80 seconds — but a win’s a win, and given the choice between playing lovely but dropping to 0-2 or getting grimy and being level, Indy’ll take the latter.
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Miami point guard Mario Chalmers had a look at a 3-pointer from the wing that would have knotted the score at 78 with scant seconds remaining, but he missed (though he may have been fouled ) and the final buzzer sounded, at which point several Pacers momentarily got slightly happy. That kind of thing can happen when your team just stole a physical one on the road, securing a split at AmericanAirlines Arena that sends you back to Indiana with home-court advantage and much sunnier prospects than most outside of Bankers Life Fieldhouse imagined a week ago.
The reserved revelry was short-lived, though — David West, Indiana’s taciturn power forward, quickly kiboshed it, shepherding his teammates off the floor and back to the Indiana locker room.
“You know, we can’t get too excited because we won one game,” said West — who led Indiana with 16 points (14 of which came in the second half) and 10 rebounds — during his postgame press conference, which you can watch in full after the jump. “That’s not our goal in this series. We can’t overreact because we were able to get one game down here. We’ve got to win professionally and understand that we haven’t reached the goal that we set out to reach.”