Mavs Trade Deadline Primer: Players Dallas Should Pursue; Weighing Risk vs. Reward

The Dallas Mavericks have frontcourt upgrades to make, and our Mavs Step Back Podcast lists several players they should consider making a serious run at before the trade deadline, including Kyle Kuzma, P.J. Washington, Andrew Wiggins, Dorian Finney-Smith, Miles Bridges and others.

Dalton Trigg | Jan 30, 2024

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The NBA trade deadline is a little more than one week away, and rumors should be picking up steam in the coming days and front offices continue to bounce offers off of each other.

Sitting at 26-21, which is currently good enough for seventh-place in the Western Conference standings, the Dallas Mavericks have some work to do before they can be considered true title contenders despite Luka Doncic playing at an MVP level.

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"This young man is 24 and is breaking all the records that stand in front of him, and he's a winner," Mavs head coach Jason Kidd said of Doncic on Tuesday. "His ultimate goal is to win a championship, and he will get there, not just win one, but he will win multiple when it's all said and done."

For that to happen, though, the Mavs will have to add a few more upgraded pieces around him either via trade before the Feb. 8 deadline or in free agency over the summer. On the latest episode of the Mavs Step Back Podcast, we discuss several different forwards and centers the Mavs have been linked to in trade rumors over the last several weeks, including Kyle Kuzma, P.J. Washington, Andrew Wiggins, Dorian Finney-Smith, Miles Bridges and others.

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Should the Mavs' 2027 first-round pick be viewed as being more valuable than other teams' picks given the uncertainty surrounding Doncic's potential 2026 free agency? Are there any package deals available right now that would make parting with that 2027 first-round pick worthwhile? When it comes to Bridges, specifically, is the risk worth the potential reward?

We cover all those topics and much more in the episode below. As always, thanks for listening, and be sure to hit the "SUBSCRIBE" button. Leave us some likes and comments as well – we want to hear your takes!

Published Jan 30, 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.