Rick Carlisle has agreed to a four-year contract to remain head coach of the Mavericks.

Carlisle led Dallas to the 2011 NBA Championship, but followed that up with a four-game exit in the first round of the 2012 Playoffs.

"We are excited that Rick will be back with the Mavericks for at least the next four years," owner Mark Cuban said in a statement. "He is a proven winner, a great teacher and a coach that will help the Mavericks improve as a team and as an organization."

Carlisle has a .635 winning percentage with the Mavericks.

Mike Krzyzewski confirmed that Lamar Odom is still part of the talent pool that could play in this summer’s Olympic Games.

“I felt bad that the year wasn’t a good one for him,” Krzyzewski said of Odom. “He has an opportunity if he comes in shape. He said the [World Championships] were as good an experience as he ever had in basketball. He said, 'I’d love to be given the opportunity to play again.' We would not have won the World Championship without him.”

The final roster will be selected at a training camp that starts in early July in Las Vegas.

“It’s not a tryout,” Colangelo said. “It’s more of a taking inventory where each individual is. Eric Gordon is a good example. He played a week or two of the season. It’s difficult to get a read. We’ll be able to see something in one workout if he’s physically fit.”

C.J. Miles will be an unrestricted free agent this summer.

"I'm definitely going to explore my options. I have to," Miles said. "I feel like I owe it to myself to be able to do that. (It's an) experience I need to be able to go through."

Miles is intrigued by the possibility of signing with the Mavericks.

"If that was an issue that came up I definitely would look at it. Who wouldn't, especially with the way that team is built now," Miles said. "They're aging a little bit and I'm pretty sure they're going to be looking for some guys that do some of the things I do."

Mavericks players voted not to give Lamar Odom a playoff share.

Dallas players received $281,937 for finishing with the seventh-best record in the Western Conference and participating in the first round of the playoffs. Split evenly, that means each player is set to receive $20,138.

"If the Lamar thing would have worked out and if he would have played like the year before when he was the best sixth man, I think we would have had a shot,'' forward Dirk Nowitzki, reffering to the Mavs' chances of advancing in the playoffs. "It would have given us another playmaker, another guy that’s long, that can defend and rebound.

"But for whatever reason the stuff he was going through off the court was just too much. He couldn’t help us the way he wanted, the way we wanted, and we had to move on without him.''

Jason Kidd will not try to talk Deron Williams into coming to the Mavericks even though the two are friends.

“I won’t have any influence on D-Will’s decision,” Kidd said during Sunday’s exit interviews. “I only joke because we have the same agent and we’ll probably play a lot of golf this summer together, and so [there is] a lot of speculation. But he’s his own man and he’s going to make the right decision for what fits best for him to try to win a championship.”

Dirk Nowitzki said Williams would be a great fit with the Mavericks.

“It’s obviously way too early,” Nowitzki said. “It’s May and he knows he’s got a big decision to make. It’s obvious that we’d love to have him, but so would a lot of other teams, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens there this summer.

“I was fortunate enough to spend some time around him during All-Star games. He’s a great dude and he’s from here, so I think it would be a great fit, but hey, that’s not my decision.”

Rick Carlisle is without a contract with the Mavericks for the 12-13 NBA season.

Donnie Nelson continues to insist Carlisle will be back next season, but Mark Cuban has declined to discuss the situation throughout the season and Dirk Nowitzki stopped short from publicly lobbying for his return.

“This team, this franchise obviously has a lot of decisions to make,” Nowitzki said. “That’s obvious. Rick had a great four years here obviously. He took us to the promised land with a team that probably nobody thought could do it. I think he found a good mix over the years of stressing defense a lot and giving (Jason) Kidd some movement, giving him some freedom on the offensive end. Sometimes he did a good job getting out of the way and just letting us play and if he saw things are not going that well, call some plays and kind of pull us back in. 

“I thought over the four years, he tried to do a good job. We’ll have to wait and see what the decision is with him, but he did a great job and obviously led us to the promised land.”

The Thunder ran the same pick-and-roll play 16 times during the fourth quarter of their come-from-behind series-closing win over Dallas in Game 4.

James Harden was used on the pick-and-roll to score 15 of his 29 points in the fourth. The play is called "Angie".

"If you look at the team we just lost to, it was [Russell] Westbrook in Game 1 and Game 2, it was Durant [in Game 3], and today they just throw it to Harden and he goes off," Dirk Nowitzki said.

"If you want to be an elite team in this league right now, you have to have at least two or three guys that can just go off at any time. I just thought they had more weapons than us. That was pretty clear."

The Mavericks have a 50 percent chance at signing Deron Williams this summer, according to a source with knowledge of Williams’ thinking.

Williams intends to opt out and become an unrestricted free agent in July.

The Nets can offer Williams a five-year max contract if he opts out, one year more than any other team.

Dirk Nowitzki said the Mavericks need to add players who can create for themselves.

"We need some guys that can make plays for themselves," Nowitzki said. "That's pretty obvious. If you look at all the top teams now, they have at least two-three guys they can throw the ball to and they do their thing."

Nowitzki pointed to how Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden took turns carrying the Thunder during their four-game sweep of the Mavericks.

"If you want to be an elite team in the league right now, you have to have 2-3 guys that can go off at any time," Nowitzki added.

Mark Cuban said the constraints of the CBA prevented him from re-signing Tyson Chandler, J.J. Barea, DeShawn Stevenson and Caron Butler.

"I've heard some of the talking headless (media), and all I can tell you is, within the collective bargaining agreement we did everything possible to put the best possible team on the court," he said. "Period. End of story. If someone wants to read it (the CBA) and tell me otherwise, go ahead. But it's like I said, I think we've got a good team. One bounce, one break and we're talking about we had one bad game like we had in Portland last year and we're still up 2-1."

Cuban has not had any second thoughts about letting key contributors sign elsewhere.

"Hell no," Cuban said. "Nope. Not even a millisecond. Because those who are talking otherwise haven't read the CBA and are just talking out their (expletive) without any foundation. But that's what you guys do.

"Given what happened, I think we put together a damn good team. If we had one break, one call, one bounce, we're having a completely different conversation and you're thinking how smart we are instead of how stupid we are."