Mavs in Talks to Hire Ex-Jazz Executive Dennis Lindsey: Details

The Dallas Mavericks, coming off a disappointing season that has them sitting at home during the NBA playoffs, are in advanced talks to hire a new front office voice with experience.

Dalton Trigg | Apr 17, 2023

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With less than a month away from finding out where they’ll be in the 2023 NBA Draft order, the Dallas Mavericks have already started making some tweaks to their front office dynamic.

According to NBA insider Marc Stein, the Mavs are in ‘advanced discussions’ to hire former Utah Jazz executive Dennis Lindsey.

“League sources tell The Stein Line that the Mavericks, fresh off plummeting from the Western Conference finals into the lottery, are in advanced discussions to hire former Utah Jazz lead decision-maker Dennis Lindsey to join the organization as a special assistant to general manager Nico Harrison,” Stein wrote.

“Sources say Harrison has been looking for an experienced sounding-board voice to join the Mavericks in a consultant’s role dating to last offseason.

“This is a pivotal summer in Dallas, with the Mavericks not only faced with trying to re-sign Kyrie Irving in free agency but addressing well-chronicled concerns about its interior and wing defense and rebounding despite limited trade assets or salary-cap flexibility to make moves.”

Lindsey was linked to the Mavs two years ago as an option to potentially join Harrison in the Dallas front office, but nothing ever came of it. Now, it appears those talks have picked back up and both sides are ready to move forward.

After a number of costly miscues by the Mavs’ front office over the years, it’s been obvious for a while that new voices are needed. Perhaps Lindsey’s voice can make a difference, because as Stein noted, this is a pivotal offseason for not only Dallas’ immediate future, but possibly its distant future as well.

Here is what ESPN’s Brian Windhorst had to say about Lindsey two years ago:

“Dennis Lindsey has done as good of a job as any executive for the last decades in the NBA. He built that team in Utah from scratch in a small market,” Windhorst said.

“And the reason he is no longer the president… Some of the stuff that he’s saying about why is leaving, I’m sure it’s true… is because he got on the opposite side of Donovan Mitchell. If you are on the opposite side of your franchise star, you’re just not going to survive. That’s just the way it is.”

We’ll see if Lindsey can avoid being in the opposite side of Luka Doncic.

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Published Apr 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.