WATCH: Mavs’ Tim Hardaway Jr. Looking Sharp in Miami Pickup Game

After suffering a foot injury that ended his season in January, Dallas Mavericks shooting guard Tim Hardaway Jr. looks primed for a bounce-back year.

Dalton Trigg | Aug 31, 2022

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On Jan. 25 in San Francisco, Tim Hardaway Jr.’s 2021-22 season with the Dallas Mavericks came to an end as he sustained a foot fracture against the Golden State Warriors that required surgery. Perhaps that was some sort of weird foreshadowing, as the Mavs’ season also ended in San Francisco as the Warriors ran away with the Western Conference Finals in five games.

As the 2022-23 NBA season nears, Hardaway Jr. is eager to get back to the same efficiency he displayed in the two seasons prior to last year. Even before his injury, Hardaway Jr. was averaging 14.2 points per game while shooting just 33.6 percent on 3s. In the previous two seasons, he averaged 16.2 points per game and shot 39.4 percent from deep.

If Hardaway Jr.’s latest Instagram post is any indication, the nine-year veteran seems poised for a big bounce-back season.

After losing Jalen Brunson to the New York Knicks in free agency this summer, the Mavs need Hardaway Jr. to be on his A-game again. With Spencer Dinwiddie expected to join Luka Doncic in the starting lineup, Hardaway Jr.’s production off the bench could play a big factor in how high the Mavs’ ceiling is this season.

Hardaway Jr.’s playoff experience is something the Mavs could’ve really used in their WCF series against the Warriors. In back-to-back playoff series against the Los Angeles Clippers, Hardaway Jr. averaged 17.4 points while shooting 37.8 percent from deep.

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Published Aug 31, 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.