Mavs 'Engaged' in Trade Talks for Raptors' Pascal Siakam, Other Versatile Forwards

With the NBA trade deadline just three weeks away, rumors are starting to pick up steam, and the Dallas Mavericks are right in the middle of it, being linked to Toronto Raptors' Pascal Siakam, old friend and current Brooklyn Nets' Dorian Finney-Smith and a handful of others.

Dalton Trigg | Jan 17, 2024

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The Dallas Mavericks have been linked to Toronto Raptors star forward Pascal Siakam for several weeks now, and that continued on Wednesday, as Yahoo Sports' Jake Fischer is reporting that Dallas has been one of the teams "engaged in acquiring" the two-time All-Star with just three weeks remaining until the NBA trade deadline.

One interesting thing to note about this particular report, though, is that it links the Mavs to several other versatile forward, including Golden State Warriors' Andrew Wiggins, Charlotte Hornets' P.J. Washington and former Mavs fan favorite and current Brooklyn Nets' Dorian Finney-Smith.

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"Dallas has been one of the teams engaged in acquiring Siakam, sources said," Fischer wrote. "The Mavericks continue to be linked to various versatile forwards, from Andrew Wiggins to P.J. Washington to old friend Dorian Finney-Smith, according to league sources."

The Mavs casting a such a wide net in attempts to upgrade their starting power-forward position shows just how aggressive GM Nico Harrison is being while trying to transform his team into a true title contender. The Mavs are already set in the backcourt with Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving, and they have 19-year-old big man Dereck Lively II as their center for the present and the future. However, Dallas still needs a big, versatile forward like the ones mentioned above to minimize weak links in its starting five.

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Trade talks can be extremely fluid, and these reports certainly don't insinuate that the Mavs are the favorite to land Siakam or any of the other names listed, but it does show that they're working the phones and doing everything they can to upgrade the roster. And if you're a Mavs fan, that's really all you can ask for.

Stay tuned to DallasBasketball.com and our Mavs Step Back Podcast for more trade-related updates on the Mavs in the coming days.

Published Jan 17, 2024

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.