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Needy Mavs Make Roster Move, Sign Former NCAA Champion Theo Pinson

After missing a handful of players due to injuries, NBA health and safety protocols and personal reasons, the Dallas Mavericks are planning to sign guard Theo Pinson to a 'hardship' contract, according to a report by The Athletic.

Dalton Trigg

After missing a handful of players due to injuries, NBA health and safety protocols and personal reasons, the Dallas Mavericks are planning to sign guard Theo Pinson to a 'hardship' contract, according to a report by The Athletic.

Pinson, who played his college ball at North Carolina and won a championship there as a starter in 2017, spent the first two seasons of his NBA career with the Brooklyn Nets and a portion of last season with the New York Knicks. Most recently, Pinson had been playing in the NBA G-League for the Maine Celtics, where he averaged 15.1 points per game on 37-percent shooting from deep in nearly 32 minutes.

Although his scoring in the G-League has looked more promising through nine games than it did with New York or Brooklyn the last three years, Pinson is best known for his play on the defensive end of the floor. Well... that, and his ability to be an incredible hype man off the bench.

The 6'5 shooting guard has yet to play well enough to stick to an actual NBA roster, but due to the mounting absences around the league due to the NBA's health and safety protocols, Pinson will get his third opportunity with the Mavs.

Now, with Kristaps Porzingis dealing with what the team is calling "foot soreness," and superstar Luka Doncic having yet to return from his ankle injury, the Mavs could be without as many as seven players when they play the Timberwolves again in two days. With rotation wings Reggie Bullock and Josh Green being part of that ever-growing list, Pinson might get thrown into the deep end as soon as Tuesday night.

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Dalton Trigg
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.

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