The Dallas Mavericks, formerly known as the Dallas Mavericks, changed their name to the Mavericks in September 2017, and the Mavericks joined the NBA during the NBA All-Star period in 1980 and officially kicked off their first season with the 1980-1981 season.

IN FACT, THE CALF IS NOT CALLED A CALF, THE REAL MEANING OF "MAVERICK" IS "MAVERICK REBEL", TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, IT IS "UNRULY PEOPLE", AND IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, THESE PEOPLE ALSO REFER TO "WESTERN COWBOYS", SO IT IS MORE APPROPRIATE TO TRANSLATE AS "DALLAS COWBOYS", BUT THE NAME OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS TEAM HAS BEEN REGISTERED BY THE VERY FAMOUS FOOTBALL TEAM IN DALLAS, AND THE NAME IS THE SAME AS THAT OF THE REBRANDER, AS FOR WHY IT IS "CALF", I HAVE NEVER FOUND OUT WHO THE FIRST PERSON CALLED THE MAVERICK WAS, This matter may be traced back to 1986, when NBA commissioner Stern signed a television contract with CCTV, when the Mavericks logo did not have the current horse head, only a capital letter M, and this English word is more appropriate to translate as cowboy, and cowboy is riding...... That's how it can be explained......

And calling "Dallas Mavericks" obviously does not reflect the cultural spirit of this team, so the owner of the Mavericks was very dissatisfied after knowing this Chinese name, and changed the team name in 2016 - Dallas Mavericks.

But before the Mavericks, it is necessary to introduce another team, this team is the first professional basketball team in Dallas, that is, the Dallas Jungle, which was founded in 1967, and speaking of this team, we must talk about the ABA league and the NBA league.

The ABA league mentioned here is not the "New American Basketball Association" founded in 1999, but the "American Basketball Association" founded in 1967, and the NBA is the pioneer of American professional basketball, founded on June 6, 1946, in New York, at that time it was not called NBA, but called BAA, the origin of the establishment is that there are eleven hockey team owners, do not want their arenas to be idle in the hockey offseason and initiated, when there were only eleven teams, each team only played 60 games.

The eleven veteran teams are: Washington Capitol (disbanded five years ago), Philadelphia Warriors (the predecessor of the Golden State Warriors, who moved to San Francisco in 1962 and Philadelphia in 1972), Providence Steamrollers (disbanded three years ago), Toronto Huskies (disbanded one year ago), Chicago Bucks (disbanded four years ago), St. Louis Bombers (disbanded in four years), Cleveland Rebels (disbanded one year ago), Detroit Falcons (disbanded one year ago) , the Pittsburgh Ironmen (disbanded the year after it was founded), plus two teams that have never changed their city or team name – the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics.

It can be seen from the brackets that the team at that time was not as nourishing as it is now, bankruptcy and dissolution abounded, and in 1967, the NBA ushered in a turning point, they got a TV contract, so that the league had money and could give more exciting basketball games, but at that time there were only ten teams in the NBA league, namely the New York Knicks, the Boston Celtics, the Philadelphia Warriors, the Fort Wayne Pistons (the predecessor of the Detroit Pistons), the Minneapolis Lakers (the predecessor of the Los Angeles Lakers), The Rochester Royals (formerly the Sacramento Kings), the Syracuse Nation (the predecessor of the Philadelphia 76ers), the Tri-City Blackhawks (the predecessor of the Atlanta Hawks), the Chicago Packers (the predecessor of the Washington Wizards) and the Chicago Bulls, the NBA decided to expand due to the lack of size of the NBA team due to large television contracts.

However, the expansion of the army will have to pay a lot of military expenses caused the dissatisfaction of many teams, so many team owners gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, and did not take us to play, so we set up another mountain to play by ourselves, and established the ABA league, known as the American Basketball Association, when it was established, there were a total of ten teams, and the Dallas Jungle and the New York Nets (the predecessor of the Brooklyn Nets) were one of them, and the legendary star George McCann was the first president of the ABA.

The ABA league used a more colorful red basket and white basketball, and the team emphasized the team rather than the stars (of course, with the exception of teams with superstars such as Moses Malone and Julius Irving), and in that era, the ABA pioneered the use of three-point shooting, which made the ABA game more enjoyable, and now the All-Star Weekend that fans talk about is also the same as in 1976, initiated by the ABA league, Eventually, the ABA was merged by the NBA.

The Jungle Team was jointly funded by 30 consortiums in Texas, why is the team called the Jungle? Because the representatives of the thirty consortiums are eating at a place called "Jungle Club", the team name is not so capricious, no way, rich is capricious, but this team has not made any breakthroughs in the record, although the first six years have reached the playoffs as the division champion, but every year, the enthusiasm of the fans is not high, because Dallas is not a traditional basketball city, and there are no players such as Julius Irving, Moses Malone, Superstars such as Elvin Hayes who made fans crazy, in order to increase fan recognition, Dallas never changed its name to Texas Jungle in 1970, but it didn't work, the team name was only used for one year, and the next year it was changed back.

The shortcomings of ABA are also obvious, that is, the physical fitness of players is not as good as the NBA, to put it bluntly, it is small, the confrontation is not as fierce as the NBA, Rao is so, ABA has also entered a stage of vigorous development, but the market will always be attached to the first person to eat crabs, in 1976, the United States economic recession, even the government closed for 10 days due to lack of funds, most of the ABA league bosses went bankrupt, and the operation of ABA was also difficult to get TV broadcasts. However, the NBA league is relatively comfortable because of its stable income, and the Denver Nuggets and New York Nets of the ABA league tried to "defect" to the NBA, but the league refused.

Before the regular season began, the Baltimore Claws announced that they could not maintain operations and disbanded on the spot, the San Diego Sails were unable to maintain after 11 games in the regular season and announced their disbandment, and the veteran Utah stars of the ABA also announced their dissolution in the middle of the season. Rick Barry George Gervin and others to keep the team running, and before the regular season was over, the landlords announced that they would be out of the league next season. In this way, the last season of the ABA league played a full season, and there were only 6 teams left in the entire league, and the Dallas Jungle sold the Jungle to a consortium of 36ers from San Antonio as early as 1973 when the precursors of the American economic collapse appeared, and relocated the team to San Antonio, and changed the team name to "Spurs" These people were a little less than the economic impact of the Dallas gang, and the Jungle, that is, the Spurs, were able to escape the catastrophe and persist to the end.

In 1976, the NBA league reached an agreement with the ABA league to merge the ABA into the NBA, but of the six teams last season, the four teams in the NBA with only the top four records were the New York Nets (the predecessor of the Brooklyn Nets), the Denver Rockets (the predecessor of the Denver Nuggets), the Indiana Pacers and the San Antonio Spurs, while the other two teams, the Kentucky Colonels and the St. Louis Spirits, were forcibly disbanded and the players participated in the 1976 team disbandment draft.

Of course, if you want to join the NBA, the franchise fee is indispensable, the NBA's price is 3.2 million, and the New York Nets are even worse, because there is a team in the same city, the New York Knicks, after the New York Nets pay the league franchise fee, they will subsidize the Knicks by 4.8 million US dollars, the Nets are poor, and they have to pay a fee of nearly 8 million, and the Nets have to negotiate with the Knicks to exchange the team's star Julius Irving for the 4.8 million, but the Knicks' clumsy problem has been since then, Decisively, the Nets had to sell Irving for 3 million to the Philadelphia 76ers, and a year after the New York Nets joined the NBA, they moved to New Jersey and started their NBA career in great pain.

"The post-merger agreement kills us by treating the Nets as an NBA team...... This deal brought us into the NBA, but it also forced me to sell Julius Irving, which basically ruined the team. ”

From 1973 to 1980, there was no professional basketball team in Dallas, and the Dallas Jungle, which existed for six years (one of which was renamed Texas Jungle), was annihilated in the memory of fans, and now I am afraid that only old fans can vaguely remember the existence of this team.

In 1979, Donald Carter, a billionaire in the interior decoration materials business, was preparing to set up a professional basketball team in Dallas, Carter was a basketball fan, his wife Linda was a good high school basketball player, Carter also devoted all his heart and soul to this team, in 1996, The elderly Carter sold the team to Ross Pace Jr. for 125 million, but Rao sold the team, it is still difficult to break Carter's basketball dream, he sold the team at the same time to Pace proposed to retain a small part of the team's equity was agreed by Pace, in 2000, Pace sold the team to Mark Kuban for 280 million, in 2011 the Mavericks won the championship, at the award ceremony, Carter was repeatedly invited by Kuban to wear a championship T-shirt, stood next to Stern, and received the championship trophy from Stern, held it high and gave it to Kuban, on February 16, 2018, the founder of professional basketball in Dallas Donald Carter passed away, at the age of 84, it was the time of the Mavericks-Pacers game, and the whole team paid tribute to Carter as a sign of respect for Donald Carter.

Of course, if you want to join the NBA, the franchise fee must not be less, a total of $12 million, and Carter also spent $27 million to build a new arena - Reunion Arena as the team's home court.

In the expansion draft, the Mavericks clearly planned the future development direction of the team, giving up the selection of those players such as Rick Barry, Doug Collins, and Earl Monroe, who are successful but old, and instead chose some young players who are not well-known, but are 20-23 years old, which shows that the Mavericks are not in a hurry to achieve results as soon as they come up, but to play steadily and steadily, step by step.

The last volume talked about the Grizzlies, which also said that the Grizzlies selected Francis, but the latter did not want to finally force the team to trade him, Francis was known as a "privilege", but in fact, he was not the first to do so, the Mavericks were embarrassed by Francis in the first year of the team, and the person who embarrassed the Mavericks was the famous Kiki Vanderwich.

Vanderwig was the 11th pick in the first round in 1980, and the first player in NBA history to join the NBA without finishing college, his scoring ability is strong, the offensive and defensive all-round ball quotient is still high, and the college is full of honors, but such players are usually unwilling to participate in the construction of the team, and do not want to squander their youth in losing games, so Vanderwig never went to the Mavericks to report, and the Mavericks persuaded for a month to no avail, and finally had to send Vanderwig and the 1986 draft pick to the Nuggets, in exchange for first-round picks in 1981 and 1982, so throughout his career, whenever he came to play at the Reunion Arena, what awaited him was always a loud boo. But what is interesting is that after retiring, Vanderwich entered the management of the Mavericks by mistake, and put Chinese players into the NBA arena, and at the same time intersected with Yi Jianlian and Wang Zhizhi.

No one could have imagined that the two first-round picks from Vanderwich brought a lot of money to the Mavericks, the 1981 first-round pick became the ninth pick, in addition to the second trade in team history, the Mavericks also made the second trade in team history, sending several role players to the Cavaliers in exchange for the Cavaliers' 1984 first-round pick, and this pick became the fourth pick, and the Mavericks selected Sam Perkins, who became the key piece of the puzzle for the first peak in Mavericks history.

There is no doubt that the start of the Mavericks' career was miserable, the tuition must be paid, the new season the Mavericks only won 15-67, and the team's lead scorer was last year's Knicks rookie Jeff Harston, The short guard, who is 188 cm tall and can only get 3.1 points and 2.2 assists in the Knicks last season, averaged 16.1 points per game and 4.9 assists in the Mavericks, of course, everyone knows that because the Mavericks lineup is too watery, the data is deceptive, and the Mavericks obviously do not want to establish Harston as the core, in the middle of the season, the Mavericks sent Richard Washington, who averaged 10.8 points and 7.6 rebounds per game with Harston and the main center, to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for a first-round pick, you must know that the Cavaliers did not play well this season, losing 7 in a row, losing 8 in a row and even losing 19 in a rowThis season, the Cavaliers have played the same bad record of 15-67 as the Mavericks, so the value of this first-round pick is also very high, and Harston is not a role for everyone, he has become a stable No. 1 player for many years, and once played a super data of 24 points and 27 assists in a single game in the Cavaliers.

In addition to Huston, the second scorer is the 196-centimeter-tall No. 3 Jim Spanack, the No. 16 rookie in the first round who played with the 76ers last year also did not perform well in his first season, averaging only 5 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game, but he played well in the Mavericks, averaging 14.4 points and 3.6 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.4 steals per game, and became the main force on the Mavericks' bench for years to come.

Bradley Davis, 191 cm tall guard, this player is the first player to retire in the history of the Mavericks, No. 15, Davis looks very cowboy, fluffy brown long hair, a thick mustache under the nose, and a lush chest hair on the chest of the jersey, but in fact, Davis's strength is average, and his stature is not only short but also thin compared to players in the same position, resulting in insufficient defensive ability, and Davis is not very good on the offensive end, because of physical limitations, there is basically no single ability, But to be able to gain a foothold in the NBA, of course, there are two brushes, Davis has a very accurate grasp of offensive timing, high finishing ability, is the kind of player who does not shoot without defense in front of the three steps, and will never be reluctant to shoot, which also makes Davis's offensive efficiency very, and he also has a very good passing hand, before coming to the Mavericks, Davis used to play in the Lakers Pacers, but he was cut, and had to go to the Western Basketball Association (WBA) to play for a year, and finally the team went bankrupt, But God did not give up on this hard-working and tenacious player, the Mavericks gave him a short-term contract, and after arriving at the Mavericks, Huston was traded, moved from the No. 2 position to the No. 1 position, averaging 11.2 points and 6.9 assists per game, shooting 56.1%, this offensive efficiency, at the time can be said to be very, very good.

Davis played in the Mavericks for 12 years, the first five years were stable starters, the last seven years were played as a substitute, and the quality of the game was not said, diligent and hard-working, he was the player who stayed with the Mavericks for the longest time in that group of players, experienced the first playoff and the first glorious period of 1984-1990, and also experienced the trough of missing the playoffs for ten consecutive years from 1990 to 2000, Davis announced his retirement in November 1992, and then only 7 months later, the Mavericks officially announced the retirement of Davis' No. 15 jerseyFor fans, they may not know this person or don't know it at all, but for the Mavericks, this is a decision that does not need to be considered, Davis is very interested in Dallas, a city and team that has a lot of grace to him, even after retiring, Davis still lives in Dallas, and has also served as an assistant coach of the Mavericks, an analyst, a commentator for the Mavericks' local television station and a guide coach for the Mavericks' development league, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Davis is an encyclopedia of the Mavericks' early history.

The first season is always miserable, but in the NBA, there is a balance in the system, that is, if you have a poor record, you will get a better return for draft picks, and the Mavericks in the second year will be rewarded handsomely, they hold the first round No. 9 pick, the first round No. 24 pick and a second-round No. 43 pick staring at the 1981 draft, and the 1981 NBA draft is one of the strongest drafts in NBA history!