Mavs Attempting to Sign Spencer Dinwiddie on Buyout Market After Raptors Trade

Spencer Dinwiddie was traded from the Brooklyn Nets to the Toronto Raptors before the trade deadline, and now that his contract has been bought out, the Dallas Mavericks are attempting to sign him as a familiar third ball-handler off the bench.

Dalton Trigg | Feb 8, 2024

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The Dallas Mavericks had a massive trade deadline day on Thursday, as they traded Grant Williams, Richaun Holmes, Seth Curry and draft capital in exchange for Charlotte Hornets’ P.J. Washington and Washington Wizards’ Daniel Gafford.

The Mavs’ two biggest needs — upgrades at the starting power-forward and backup center positions — were addressed by GM Nico Harrison, and now, with an open roster spot, the need for a third ball-handler could be addressed on the buyout market.

The Brooklyn Nets traded Spencer Dinwiddie to the Toronto Raptors on Thursday, and the team announced soon after that he has already been waived. Dinwiddie will hit the open market after clearing waivers, and given that he played the best basketball of his career in Dallas with Luka Doncic, a reunion would make sense. According to multiple reports, the Mavs will indeed pursue Dinwiddie.

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In Dallas, Dinwiddie averaged 17.1 points and 4.9 assists while shooting career-highs 46.6 percent overall and 40.4 percent from deep. He was a key piece of the Mavs’ three-headed guard monster featuring Doncic and Jalen Brunson that made it to the 2022 Western Conference Finals.

Published Feb 8, 2024

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.