Rockets Turn Down Mavs’ Trade Offer for Jae’Sean Tate; Details

The Dallas Mavericks made a run at Houston Rockets’ Jae’Sean Tate, but the asking price was reportedly too high.

Dalton Trigg | Feb 8, 2024

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Although the Dallas Mavericks’ main focus ahead of Thursday’s NBA trade deadline has been upgrading their starting power-forward position, they’re apparently casting an even wider net than that.

According to The Athletic, the Mavs have made a run at Houston Rockets small forward Jae’Sean Tate. However, the Rockets’ asking price is reportedly more than what the Mavs can afford.

“Historically, Houston has valued their players highly. For example, there were conversations with the Dallas Mavericks, one of the teams that have been monitoring Tate’s situation, league sources said, but the Mavericks have only two second-round picks available that were offered. The Rockets, according to those sources, insisted on three,” Kelly Iko wrote.

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On the season, Tate is averaging 4.5 points and 3.3 rebounds in 17.9 minutes per game while shooting 47.5 percent overall and 30.3 percent from deep. Unless the Mavs have a separate deal lined up to trade away Josh Green, for example, we’re not sure this particular trade pursuit is ideal for Dallas.

Stay tuned to DallasBasketball.com for updates.

Published Feb 8, 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.