{"id":696533,"date":"2026-04-03T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696533\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:49:14","slug":"nbas-mavericks-prevail-in-texas-business-court-arena-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/696533\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA\u2019s Mavericks Prevail in Texas Business Court Arena Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Mavericks can redeem the interest of the Dallas Stars in the American Airlines Center sports arena, a business court judge ruled, because the hockey team maintained its offices outside the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence conclusively establishes that at all relevant times the Mavericks have complied with this requirement\u2014and the Stars have not,\u201d Judge Bill Whitehill said in a written <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutblaw.com\/blmD\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The teams are <a data-terminal-id=\"T4WAV3GPQQ7G\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/dallas-mavericks-sue-hockeys-stars-over-arena-improvement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">locked in a bitter dispute<\/a> over a 1999 shared lease agreement that governs operations of the American Airlines Center in Dallas. The Mavericks say the Stars abandoned the partnership when they moved their headquarters to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks can redeem the interest of the Dallas Stars in the American Airlines Center sports arena,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,58056,686,149,4057,58054,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-696533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bonuses","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-dallasmavericks","13":"tag-leasing","14":"tag-mavericks","15":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116342749111117630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}