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BREAKING: Mavs Promote In-House Executive to Assistant GM; Details

After being with the Dallas Mavericks for a year, Senior Director of Pro Personnel Matt Riccardi is being promoted to Assistant General Manager.

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Although it’s been a relatively quiet Friday around the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks have made a front office move worth taking note of. According to a report from The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the Mavs are promoting their Senior Director of Pro Personnel Matt Riccardi to Assistant General Manager.

“The Dallas Mavericks are promoting Senior Director of Pro Personnel Matt Riccardi to Assistant General Manager, sources say. Riccardi, a Dallas area native, spent 13 years as an executive in Brooklyn before joining the Mavericks in 2022,” Charania tweeted.

With this promotion, we can assume that Riccardi’s voice will now hold a little more weight in front office decisions. That isn’t to say it didn’t beforehand, but this is clearly a step up the ladder for Riccardi.

The Mavs’ front office power structure is clear, with Mark Cuban as owner, Nico Harrison as General Manager, Michael Finely as Vice President of Basketball Operations, and now Riccardi as Assistant General Manager. Dallas also brought on former longtime Utah Jazz executive Dennis Lindsey this summer to have a front office advisory role with the Mavs.

After missing the postseason for the first time since Luka Doncic’s rookie season in 2018-19, the Mavs made some dramatic changes to their roster this summer. Newcomers for the upcoming season include Grant Williams, Seth Curry, Dereck Lively II, OMax Prosper, Dante Exum, Derrick Jones Jr., Richaun Holmes and others.

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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.

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