Latest Mavs Trade Rumors: Kyle Kuzma, Andrew Wiggins, Dorian Finney-Smith

The NBA trade deadline is less than a week away, and here's Friday's latest on the players the Dallas Mavericks are reportedly pursuing.

Dalton Trigg | Feb 2, 2024

Latest Mavs Trade Rumors: Kyle Kuzma, Andrew Wiggins, Dorian Finney-Smith /

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With the NBA trade deadline now less than a week away, the Dallas Mavericks continue to be linked to several versatile forwards who could upgrade their roster. Luka Doncic is having an MVP-caliber season, but at 26-22, the Mavs haven't been good enough to place him at the top of the MVP list.

According to Yahoo! Sports' Jake Fischer, the Mavs and the Sacramento Kings are still the two man teams connected to Washington Wizards' Kyle Kuzma. He also mentions Dallas connections to Portland Trail Blazers' Jerami Grant (to an extent), Brooklyn Nets' Dorian Finney-Smith and Golden State Warriors' Andrew Wiggins.

"Dallas and Sacramento remain the two teams connected by league figures to Washington forward Kyle Kuzma. The Mavericks appear to be pursuing a much wider range of players than the Kings. Sacramento and Dallas both registered interest in Siakam and Grant, league sources told Yahoo Sports," Fischer wrote.

"But aside from the Kuzma connection — the Kings have pursued Kuzma dating back to his Lakers days — Sacramento isn’t currently known to be pursuing other roster upgrades that would require parting with Harrison Barnes, sources said, and he could very well stick in Sacramento beyond the deadline. The Mavericks, meanwhile, continue to be connected to other forwards such as Washington, Dorian Finney-Smith and Andrew Wiggins."

NBA Insiders Reveal Wizards’ Kyle Kuzma Trade Price Mavs Can Afford

Any of those players would serve as a significant frontcourt upgrade for the Mavs. Price-wise, though, trading for Wiggins might allow Dallas to get more bang for its buck, as the 10-year veteran is in the first year of a four-year, $109 million contract and is only shooting 31.3 percent from deep this season. If the Warriors are simply looking to get off of Wiggins' long-term money, a straight-up trade for Tim Hardaway Jr. and Richaun Holmes – two players who will be on expiring deals next season – could work out for both teams.

Published Feb 2, 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.