Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks (frequently called the Mavs) are an American expert basketball group primarily based totally in Dallas with a value of $2.4 billion. The Mavericks compete withinside the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Western Conference Southwest Division. The group performs its domestic games at the American Airlines Center, which it shares with the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars.

Throughout the 1980s, the Mavericks had been a perennial playoff group, led by All-Stars Rolando Blackman and Mark Aguirre. The group struggled for the duration of the 1990s, moving into a duration of rebuilding. In 1998, the franchise's fortunes could extrude substantially with the purchase of Dirk Nowitzki, who could end up the cornerstone of the maximum hit duration in franchise history, leading the group to its first NBA championship in 2011. The Mavericks later entered a rebuilding segment withinside the tail stop of Nowitzki's storied career. They missed the playoffs in 3 consecutive years from 2017 to 2019, and then Nowitzki retired following his record-breaking twenty-first season with Dallas. Led by 2019 Rookie of the Year Luka Dončić, the Mavericks lowered back to the playoffs in 2020 and reached the Western Conference Finals in 2022 for the primary time due to the fact that their 2011 championship.

Value: $2.4 billion