50 Again!

On April 5th the Mavs passed the 50 win mark for the 5th straight year. In the 20 years before that the Mavs had only broke that barrier twice('86 and '87 seasons). They are also 1 of only 2 teams that currently have 5 years of 50+ win seasons. The other is the Spurs and this year makes 6 for them. The Kings have a good chance at making it to 50 for the 5th year in a row. They currently have 48 wins with 4 games to go(@LAL, @PHI, @UTA, and PHX).

That is an amazing amount of consistency for a team that reworks it's lineup at least once, and usually twice a year. Up until this year the only consistency had been in the big 3(Dirk, Finley, and Nash) with all the others rotating every offseason and/or trade deadline. This year Cuban and the Nellie's(Don and Donnie) even broke that group up. Letting Nash go to Phoenix and relegating Finley to role player status. The one constant in the situation has been Dirk Nowitzki. He is now the unquestioned leader of the team and that is a good thing. The departure of his buddy Nash spurred him from being just very good player to a great player.


Dirks the reason

A lot of credit also has to be given to the front office (Cuban and the Nellie's) for being willing to change things, despite success, in order to make it to the next level as a team. They won't settle for just winning 50+ games, making into the playoffs and winning a series or two. They want to win it all and will do whatever it takes to do it. I have no doubt with those guys running things there will be many more 50+ win seasons to come.