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OFFICIAL: Mavs Sign Markieff Morris to Contract; Full Details

After acquiring Markieff Morris in the Kyrie Irving trade last season, the Dallas Mavericks have now signed him to a one-year contract.

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When the Dallas Mavericks made a trade with the Brooklyn Nets last season, most of the spotlight was on superstar point guard Kyrie Irving, and rightfully so. However, the Mavs did receive another player in that deal: 12-year veteran forward Markieff Morris.

On Saturday, the Mavs made it official and signed Morris to continue their partnership heading into the 2023-24 season. Per team policy, contract details weren’t provided in the Mavs’ official press release. However, NBA insider Michael Scotto shed some light on the kind of contract Morris signed.

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“The Dallas Mavericks re-signed Markieff Morris to a partially guaranteed one-year, $3.2 million deal, league sources told @hoopshype. Morris got $200K guaranteed,” Scotto tweeted. This deal gives the Mavs some flexibility in case an opportunity comes up where they’d need to waive Morris.

While working his way back into game shape after being traded from Brooklyn, Morris didn’t get many opportunities to play for the Mavs last season. He only appeared in eight games and averaged 4.5 points and 1.5 rebounds while shooting 42.4 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from deep.

In the Mavs’ final two games of the season — an organic tank job that drew wide criticism around the league, mainly from the national media — Morris averaged 11.5 points in 17.5 minutes per game.

We don’t foresee Morris having a big impact with the Mavs this coming season, but he has been a decent, serviceable role player for his entire career in seven previous stops. So if the 34-year-old vet comes into training camp in shape and motivated, perhaps he can prove us wrong.

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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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