NBA Rumor: Could Mavs Acquire Buddy Hield in 3-Way Trade with Pacers, Raptors?

The Dallas Mavericks have been linked to Buddy Hield in trade rumors before, and now another one has surfaced less than a week before the NBA Draft.

Dalton Trigg | Jun 17, 2023

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As NBA trade rumors heat up ahead of next week’s draft, it’s important to take them with a grain of talk until actual talks between teams start progressing.

The Dallas Mavericks have been linked to several players in trade rumors over the last month or so, including Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, Phoenix Suns’ Deandre Ayton and Atlanta Hawks big men John Collins and Clint Capela.

On Saturday, another rumor surfaced, this time linking the Mavs to Indiana Pacers shooting guard Buddy Hield via a potential three-team trade with Dallas, Indiana and the Toronto Raptors. However, there are some issues with this one.

“The Pacers, Raptors, and Mavs could engage in a three-team deal that would send OG Anunoby to Indiana, multiple first-round picks that would include the No. 7 overall pick to Toronto, and Buddy Hield to Dallas,” Hoops Habit’s Jake Weinbach tweeted. “Toronto is actively exploring options to move up in the draft.“

Although the Mavs are likely in several trade talks involving their No. 10 pick in next week’s draft, it’s hard to believe they’d part with that pick for a player like Hield given that their self-proclaimed biggest needs are defense and rebounding. If the “multiple first-round picks” going to Toronto would all be coming from Indiana for O.G. Anunoby, then we could see the Mavs being interested in Hield. A straight-up swap for Tim Hardaway Jr. in an expanded trade could make some sense.

This isn’t something that warrants too much attention for now, but it’s something we’ll be keeping an eye on regardless. In the meantime, the NBA world will be on the edge of their seats waiting to see where Bradley Beal and other big-name players could be traded to next.

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Published Jun 17, 2023

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.