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Mavs Guarantee Reggie Bullock's Contract Ahead of Free Agency

With just a few days until NBA free agency, the Dallas Mavericks have guaranteed Reggie Bullock's $10.5 million contract for the 2023-24 season.

Dalton Trigg

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Heading into Wednesday night, the Dallas Mavericks had a midnight deadline to make a decision on Reggie Bullock's contract. Bullock signed a three-year, $30 million contract with the Mavs in the summer of 2021, and the final year of that deal, worth $10.5 million, wasn't fully guaranteed until now.

According to NBA insider Marc Stein, the Mavs are fully guaranteeing the final year of Bullock's contract ahead of free agency. Although his production was inconsistent last season on both ends of the court, having Bullock on a $10.5 million expiring contract is worth more to the Mavs than letting him go for nothing.

Bullock is coming off a season where he averaged 7.2 points and 3.6 rebounds per game while shooting 40.9 percent from the field and 38 percent from deep. That points average was Bullock's lowest since his 2016-17 season with the Detroit Pistons.

Perhaps he can have a bounce-back season in what will be a contract year for him, or perhaps the Mavs will be able to use his expiring contract in a trade package – for example, Dallas had discussions with the Phoenix Suns about Deandre Ayton on draft night that fell apart, and those talks could be revisited at some point.

Bullock was a vital part of the Mavs' run to the Western Conference Finals in the 2021-22 season. After Dallas missed the postseason entirely last season, maybe the longer-than-usual offseason is what Bullock needs to get back to being that 3-and-D wing we saw during that WCF run.

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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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