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Horseshoe Hopes: Mavs Find New Path to Lottery Luck?

The Dallas Mavericks have never once moved up in the NBA Draft Lottery in team history, so they’re trying something different this year in hopes of changing that.

Dalton Trigg

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When you haven't had any NBA Draft Lottery luck in franchise history, you start to take drastic measures. The Dallas Mavericks, who will be represented by GM Nico Harrison on Tuesday night in Chicago, have started that process, as they've been passing a blue horseshoe around the team's offices as a good-luck charm.

The lottery odds are the lottery odds, and they don’t care about these good-luck charm attempts, but hey, it doesn’t hurt to try something new, right? As long as the Mavs find a way to get that horseshoe in the hands of Dirk Nowitzki before Tuesday night, we’re good with this move.

On today’s episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we discuss Dallas’ attempt to swing lottery fortune in its favor, as well as previewing the NBA’s conference finals matchups. The playoffs have already been exciting and unpredictable, and that very well could continue with the Denver Nuggets taking on the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics taking on the Miami Heat.

With the lottery coming up on Tuesday night, the Mavs have a 3.0-percent chance of winning the No. 1 overall pick and a chance to pair Victor Wembanyama with Luka Doncic. They also have a 13.9-percent chance of jumping into the top-four picks.

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Dalton Trigg
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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