Dallas Mavericks center Dereck Lively II had a superb rookie season. For "NBA Defense Week," the Mavs social media team posted a video featuring highlights, including the defensive center.

Derek Fisher forced overtime with a 3-pointer ... The Lakers won the 2009 Finals, 4 games to 1.

What they likely didn't know is that Lively would develop so rapidly that he'd end up being the Mavs' third-most important player during the 2024 playoffs en route to an NBA Finals appearance.

Instead, he blossomed into a key piece on the Mavericks' run to the NBA Finals last season. After the draft day trade was finalized and Lively became a Maverick, it took him a while before he ...

This week’s episode of Podcast P with Paul George featured five-time NBA champion Derek Fisher, who revisited a historic moment from the 2001 NBA Finals. Fisher reflected on Allen Iverson’s ...

Derek Fisher recently took responsibility for Allen Iverson's iconic 2001 NBA Finals stepover of Tyronn Lue, explaining his ...

Lively, a 20-year-old center in his second NBA season, has appeared in 25 of the Mavs’ 30 games in the 2024-25 campaign so far. He has started 18 of those contests. Lively and Daniel Gafford are ...

It's been over a decade since the Oklahoma City Thunder made the NBA ... Derek Fisher talks about the 2012 Thunder and how he wish he would’ve been a more vocal leader in their Finals run ...