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So for those of you who missed out on Part One, go check it out now . Here, we'll go down and list the 5th through 1st best individual performances by Mavericks this season.

When Mark Cuban decided not to bring back Tyson Chandler, among other key contributors, Dallas took a different route this season in pursuing back-to-back NBA Titles.

I'm not sure what these "voters" were watching. Maybe just passing through their TV and caught a few SportsCenter highlights.

Playoff basketball is on every night now, but it's not quite the same as watching the Mavericks play.

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When the Dallas Mavericks ' season ended this past Saturday, all the talk began to shift toward the biggest summer in ' history thanks to a chance of signing All-Star point guard Deron Williams and maybe a few other names along the way.

When the Lamar Odom trade was announced soon after the Chris Paul mega deal, a note was made that the 2012 first round pick of the Mavericks would be sent to the Los Angeles Lakers as compensation.

It didn't work. They were swept in the first round by the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night, the Mavericks go into the offseason with a lot of questions marks and roster spots opening.

As I wrote in a previous post , the list of former Tar Heels among the NBA's best players is remarkably thin - and as a matter of fact, advanced in age - for a program that has achieved such an incredible run of success over the past eight seasons.

The Mavericks played more than 16 minutes of Thursday's Game 3 loss to Oklahoma City without a true center on the floor.

You know the drill. The Difference is a reflection on the game that was, with one bullet for every point in the final margin.

Center Tyson Chandler, the former Maverick who went to the New York Knicks after last season, won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award in voting conducted among writers and broadcasters.

As I mentioned in my series preview , in my opinion, the biggest thing the Mavericks really miss from Tyson Chandler is what he added to the offense.

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One team was melting down. The other was rising up. A furious comeback fueled by the opposing team's careless ball handling, iffy shot selection and suspect defense.

Did the Thunder learn anything from losing last year's Western Conference Finals to the Mavericks in five games? It'll be a youth vs.