Well, we knew this was coming, but we dreaded it anyways.  The Mavs slogan
for this season is "NEW MAVERICKS UNDER CONSTRUCTION" and it is obvious
who will be footing the bill for this construction.  The Mavs announced
their ticket prices for the 1996-97 season.  For season ticket holders
that kept their tickets since 92-93, Donald Carter had frozen the prices
at the 92-93 rate.  That freeze is gone and now we get to pay (ouch).
Here are the new prices for the 96-97 season.

      96-97       95-96      92-93 frozen price
       $70        $50         $42               [some of these will "only"
                                                 be $52]
       $52        $40         $32
       $42        $32         $24
       $35        $27         $19               [some of these will "only"
                                                 be $30]
       $27        $24         $17
       $21        $19         $14
       $15        $15         $12
        $9         $5          $5

[I guess I should feel "lucky" that my $19 tickets are only increasing by
$11 to $30.  The fun part is going to be talking my dad into renewing his
ticket (come on, Dad, you know you love going and think of the quality
time we get to spend together).]

The Mavs ranked 25th out of 29 teams in average ticket prices last season.  
The Mavs report that this increase would only move the Mavs up to 15th or
16th in average in 95-96 ranking.  Of course, they fail to mention that
most of those top ranking teams have the high price luxury boxes that
Reunion is lacking.


In the draft news, the Mavs brought Lorenzen Wright (Memphis, forward),
Samaki Walker (Louisville, forward), and Kerry Kittles (Villanova, guard)
to Dallas for workouts.  Antoine Walker (Kentucky, forward) is scheduled
to visit today (Friday) and Roy Rogers (Alabama, forward) is scheduled to
visit today and tomorrow.  The Mavs sent two representatives to Erick
Dampier's (Mississippi State, center) private workout.

Jim Cleamons said that the Mavs have roughly 10 trade proposals on the
table, but is inclined towards keeping the 3 Js together.
Cleamons: "[the other sides] are horse traders out there.  They're not
going to give you equal value.  Everybody's looking for a better deal.  So
what's a good deal?  Why not give these three young men an opportunity to
play together?  What I see, whatever the differences were last year, I
don't think they're so insurmountable that they can't be worked out."
Due to injuries, the 3 Js have only played in 66 games together.


patricia