The Latest Breaking News from Christian Wood

DALLAS — Well, that escalated quickly. Late Friday morning, less than 15 minutes after listing no players as questionable or doubtful for Friday night’s home game against Chicago, the Mavericks suddenly declared that five players will miss the game for rest or injury recovery.

The playoffs are almost here, y'all!

Kyrie Irving? Out. Tim Hardaway Jr.? Out. Christian Wood, Josh Green and Maxi Kleber... well, you get it.

Dallas seems to have hit the tank button with two games remaining.

DALLAS -- The Mavericks and owner Mark Cuban spent the hours before Wednesday night’s victory to the Sacramento Kings recounting past mistakes, facing blame for their playoff spiral, and shooting down one Hall of Fame’s dad’s superstar insults.

After the Dallas Mavericks season is humanly put down, their Superstar Slovenian should go to a Croatian beach for a month, while Luka Doncic’s bosses need to be honest with themselves about his teammates.

Back in October, I wrote about something I figured would quietly become one of the more important story lines in the league: How would the Mavericks—who opted to let highly talented guard Jalen Brunson walk—handle Luka Dončić’s usage rate, which had already been the NBA’s highest in each of the…

The acquisition of Kyrie Irving by the Dallas Mavericks is going about as well as the Brooklyn Nets would have guessed.

DALLAS — The Mavericks superstar duo’s injury statuses remain uncertain ahead of Dallas’ most pivotal game of the regular season.

Hey, y’all—happy Tuesday to you. Just in case you’re a normal adult human and avoid making countdown calendars tied to the NBA schedule, there are 19 days left in the regular season. I know because I’ve gone ahead and counted. I genuinely have no clue what’s going to happen once…

MEMPHIS — Look at the positive, Mavericks fans: