LISTEN: Mavs Season Recap; Wemby Lottery Dreaming & Offseason Trade Scenarios

The Dallas Mavericks’ disappointing 2022-23 campaign mercifully came to an end on Sunday afternoon, and the Mavs Step Back Podcast recaps everything that went wrong and looks ahead to what should be an eventful offseason filled with change.

Dalton Trigg | Apr 10, 2023

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Here lies the 2022-23 Dallas Mavericks… We’d say they will be missed, but that’s a big enough lie that our noses might extend out a few feet from our faces if we told it.

On Sunday afternoon, the Mavs’ abysmal season finally … mercifully … ended with a 138-117 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. The loss helped Dallas take sole possession of the 10th-best odds in the NBA Draft Lottery on May 16.

On today’s episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we recap Dallas’ first losing season since Luka Doncic’s rookie year and discuss some ways the front office can take steps to turning the franchise’s situation around this summer.

Doncic might not be contemplating asking for a trade right now, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen later on if there are more disappointing seasons like what we just witnessed.

From there, we ramp up our Victor Wembanyama draft lottery dreaming. If the Mavs are fortunate enough to obtain a top-four pick, should they entertain trading it to replenish their roster depth and future draft assets? If the answer is “yes,” there are a handful of potential trade scenarios to consider, including Toronto Raptors All-Star forward Pascal Siakam.

We finish up this one by talking about Kyrie Irving’s stellar offense fit with Doncic, and whether or not we think the Mavs can re-sign him this summer with no added drama. If Irving does decide to walk, could Atlanta Hawks star Trae Young, who has surfaced in trade rumors yet again, be a viable backup plan?

The Mavs’ offseason came sooner than any of us expected it would, and the pipe-dream speculation is already off to a fast start.

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Published Apr 10, 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.