Mavs BREAKING: Justin Holiday Signs After Buyout; Playing Time In Dallas?

The Dallas Mavericks are signing Justin Holiday after missing out on multiple NBA buyout targets they've been linked to in recent days.

Dalton Trigg | Feb 13, 2023

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DALLAS - The Dallas Mavericks have been linked to a number of NBA buyout targets in recent days, but Justin Holiday is the guy as he completes a buyout with the Houston Rockets.

Holiday is an NBA journeyman to be sure, and that has been the case throughout his 10-year career, as he's played for eight different teams. The soon-to-be 34-year-old has career averages of 8.5 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game on 39.8 percent shooting from the field, including 36.4 percent from deep.

This year for the Atlanta Hawks (before his inclusion in the deadline deal to the Rockets) he ended up making just 28 appearances while averaging 4.5 points in 14.7 minutes per game.

Some of the best games of Holiday's career have come against the Mavs, including his career-high 30 points on March 7, 2019 when he was a member of the Memphis Grizzlies.

Although the dynamic duo of Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving gives the Mavs a chance to beat any team on any given night, adding wing depth was noted by GM Nico Harrison as a priority in this process.

Holiday is in the final year of his deal and is making $6.2 million for the 2022-23 season.

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Published Feb 13, 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.