NBA Betting Odds: Mavs Trade Favorites for Deandre Ayton?

The Dallas Mavericks have been involved in Deandre Ayton trade rumors for months, and the latest NBA betting odds have them as the favorites to land the former No. 1 overall pick.

Dalton Trigg | Jun 11, 2023

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With the NBA Draft less than two weeks away, trade rumors will start to heat up. The Dallas Mavericks have been involved in several rumors already, especially when it comes to Phoenix Suns big man Deandre Ayton.

The vibes with Ayton in Phoenix have been off over the last two years, and although the Suns have a new coach in Frank Vogel, there’s still a chance he could be traded elsewhere for a fresh start. According to the latest betting odds from Sportsbetting.ag, the Mavs are the favorites to land the former No. 1 overall pick (+300).

Given Kyrie Irving’s relationship with Suns star Kevin Durant, many will try to workout hypothetical sign-and-trade packages to get Irving to Phoenix, but the Mavs plan on re-signing him in free agency. Irving has reportedly already started recruiting for Dallas as well, which is a good sign that he’s likely sticking around for at least another year.

If the Suns are willing to take a trade package that revolved around Tim Hardaway Jr., Maxi Kleber and Reggie Bullock, for example, the Mavs would probably make that sort of deal. The Suns, on the other hand, would likely want at least the Mavs’ No. 10 pick in this year’s draft. At that point, though, is it worth it for Dallas to trade away depth, plus a top-10 pick?

The answer to that is probably ‘no,’ but we’ll find out a lot more about the Mavs’ intentions for their pick in the next 11 days.

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Published Jun 11, 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.