Mavs Post-Lottery Reactions: Mock Drafts, Trade Scenarios & More

Following the NBA Draft Lottery, the Mavs Step Back Podcast crew gave their initial reactions to the Dallas Mavericks kept their 2023 first-round pick at No. 10. A handful of trade scenarios were presented as well.

Dalton Trigg | May 17, 2023

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After the dust settled following the NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, 'relieved' was the word Dallas Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison used to describe his immediate feelings about his team retaining its top-10 pick.

"[I was] relieved once it got to the 11th pick and I knew we at least would get the 10th pick," Harrison told DallasBasketball.com's Grant Afseth in an exclusive interview after the lottery announcements took place.

If the Mavs' pick had fallen to 11th, it would've been conveyed to the New York Knicks in order to finish up the 2019 Kristaps Porzingis trade. So, even though Dallas had to watch its rival San Antonio Spurs win the Victor Wembanyama sweepstakes, at least Harrison and company avoided the worst-case scenario of losing this year's pick altogether. Pick No. 10 is better than no pick at all, especially in this 2023 draft class, which is one of the deeper ones we've seen in years.

On this episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we give our initial reactions to the Mavs' lottery-day results, look at several different updated mock drafts, which have the Mavs selecting a different player in each one, propose a handful of different trade scenarios involving the 10th pick, and much, much more! Names like Pascal Siakam, Bam Adebayo, Jarace Walker, Gradey Dick and Dereck Lively II are all discussed in this one.

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Published May 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.