DLLS Dallas Mavericks Podcast
The DLLS Mavericks Podcast delivers the most complete coverage of the Dallas Mavericks, five days a week. Featuring insider reporting from Tim Cato and Marc Stein, plus expert on-court analysis from Kevin Gray Jr. and Bobby Karalla, the show brings you everything from breaking Mavs news and trade rumors to in-depth game breakdowns, player performances, and league-wide insights. Whether it’s Kyrie Irving’s latest highlight, Anthony Davis' impact, or what’s next for the Mavs in the West, you’ll find every stat, every story, and every angle right here.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 324
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Looking back on the Mavs' season & Clippers preview
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya look back at the Dallas Mavericks’ regular season with The Athletic’s Dave DuFour, sharing some of our favorite moments and which aspects of the year really snuck up on u…
A serious look at Luka’s MVP case
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya talk to their old friend from The Athletic, Dave DuFour, about the surging Mavericks, what criteria really should matter for the MVP voting, and whether Luka Doncic can u…
Ranking the Mavericks’ playoff matchups and rotation
With Dallas cruising toward a top-six seed, Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya rank which postseason opponents are most favorable and then draft rotation players by playoff importance.
The new-look Mavs are here
Tim Cato talks to Mavs.com’s Bobby Karalla about the Mavericks’ new offense, its deliberate paint-pounding approach, how the center position might be the team’s third-best “player”, the way that the …
Kyrie Irving’s unbelievable game winner
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya talk about whatever THAT impossible shot was from Kyrie Irving that gave Dallas its best win of the 2023-24 season, and more about what this win represents for the Maveri…
6 things we’ll learn in the GSW/OKC/DEN stretch
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya look forward to the Mavericks’ next three games, ones where we can potentially learn a lot about whether Dallas has improved defending the corner 3 and five-out lineups, …
Let’s have a Hardaway & Kidd convo
Tim Cato, Austin Ngaruiya, and Mike Piellucci talk deep on the team’s most polarizing player, Tim Hardaway Jr., who is hurting Dallas. There’s more nuance than the discourse has given him to the play…
Cautious Mavs optimism & the Tim convo
Tim Cato, Austin Ngaruiya, and Mike Piellucci link up to chat about what we expect from the Dallas Mavericks for the rest of the season — and what we expect from Tim Hardaway Jr., his role going forw…
5 Mavericks questions for the season that remains
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya cover the questions — it felt like it was about five, but honestly we weren’t counting — we have for what remains of the Dallas Mavericks’ regular season and the postseas…
The Good Vibe Mavs are back
Tim Cato, Austin Ngaruiya and Mike Piellucci talk about the new-look Mavericks after last week's trades for P.J. Washington and Daniel Gafford, and what it cost to acquire them.
Trade deadline talk with Jake Fischer
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya talk to Yahoo Sports’ Jake Fischer about the Dallas Mavericks’ outlook heading into the NBA trade deadline and the league’s perception of the Nico Harrison-led front offi…
Mavericks’ ceiling + belated Luka 73 thoughts
Tim Cato talks to Mavs.com’s Bobby Karalla about what Dallas’ healthy starting five might be able to achieve when they FINALLY get on the court together, maybe as soon as this weekend. Then, we debat…
Mavericks < Celtics, any trade targets we still like?
Tim Cato, Austin Ngaruiya and Mike Piellucci chat about the Mavericks’ defeat to the Boston Celtics, what it represents in the grander scheme of the team’s roster construction, and Luka’s emotions st…
The Mavs' fantastic 5-2 homestand
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya talk about the Mavericks beating the Pelicans in the harder game thanks to Kyrie Irving and Tim Hardaway Jr. combining for 83 points, and then discuss some broader themes…
Mavs’ best/worse games, Siakam talk
Tim Cato and Mike Piellucci record live from the American Airlines Center to discuss the Mavericks’ best and worst case scenarios as the team continues missing Dereck Lively II (and Dante Exum), and …
The Luka-Kyrie-Exum-Lively Mavs
Tim Cato and Austin Ngaruiya talk about the Dallas Mavericks’ most important question for the second half of the season: Is their best lineup one that hasn’t even played together? If so, how far can …
Luka’s Christmas game was absurd
Tim Cato, Mike Piellucci and Austin Ngaruiya are back to talk about the Mavericks’ Christmas win against the Phoenix Suns, where that Luka game ranks within his career performances, and chat about so…
What will the Mavericks look like healthy?
Tim Cato talks to Nick Angstadt from the Locked On Mavs podcast about the team’s current vibes, what the team’s starting lineup and rotation will look like once they finally get healthy, and whether …
Why Luka’s too good for defenses
Tim Cato talks to old friend Dave DuFour from The Athletic and 77 Minutes about how good Luka Doncic has been, what defenses opponents are using against him, and what we might see next. Dave literall…
We answer your Mavs questions
Tim Cato and Mike Piellucci talk through the team’s biggest recent news: Mark Cuban’s decision to sell the team and what it means, practically, for the coming years. Then we answer more questions tha…