NBA Trade Rumors: Mavs ‘Suitor’ for John Collins; Teams Monitoring Finney-Smith

As the NBA trade deadline approaches, the Dallas Mavericks have their eyes on a lot of potential upgrades, including Atlanta Hawks big man John Collins.

Dalton Trigg | Jan 13, 2022

With the NBA trade deadline just 28 days away, rumors continue to pick up steam around the league, including some fresh ones involving the Dallas Mavericks.

According to a report by Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer, the Mavs could be a team to keep an eye on for a potential trade featuring Atlanta Hawks big man John Collins.

“Collins has a lot of fans around the league,” says Fischer. “San Antonio and Dallas have frequently been linked as suitors for some time.”

The previous Mavs’ front office loved the idea of adding Collins into the mix, and if this current rumor is true, it appears as if those feelings haven’t changed with new general manager Nico Harrison working the trade phones. Collins would be a perfect pick-and-roll and pick-and-pop threat to pair with superstar Luka Doncic.

Given that Doncic’s supermax contract extension will begin next season, it makes it unlikely that the Mavs will be able to retain both Jalen Brunson and Dorian Finney-Smith in the offseason. That’s assuming Dallas doesn’t decide to do something with Kristaps Porzingis before then.

“Teams are circling Dorian Finney-Smith as a strong trade candidate in Dallas,” says Fischer.

“Rick Carlisle was known as Finney-Smith's biggest advocate in Dallas, sources said, and Indiana has been mentioned as a potential destination.”

Knowing what we know about the Mavs’ reported interest in Indiana Pacers big man Myles Turner, which Fischer also mentioned in his report, perhaps Finney-Smith could end up being a key piece in Dallas landing Turner.

On a final note here, we recently pondered the idea of the Mavs making a trade for Boston Celtics guard Dennis Schroder at DallasBasketball.com, and according to Fischer, our educated guessing apparently isn’t too far off.

“New York, Cleveland and Dallas have been mentioned as potential destinations for Schroder,” says Fischer.

Stay tuned to DallasBasketball.com for all Mavs trade rumor updates.

Published Jan 13, 2022

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.