Trade Odds: Mavs Betting Favorites to Land Hornets’ P.J. Washington

The Dallas Mavericks have been looking for an upgrade at power forward, and they’re the betting odds favorite to land Charlotte Hornets’ P.J. Washington in a trade 10 days ahead of the deadline.

Dalton Trigg | Jan 29, 2024

Trade Odds: Mavs Betting Favorites to Land Hornets’ P.J. Washington /

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The NBA trade deadline is 10 days away, and the Dallas Mavericks, who are currently 25-21 and in eighth-place in the Western Conference, are still in search of some frontcourt upgrades.

One name the Mavs have been linked to several times over the last few weeks is Charlotte Hornets forward P.J. Washington, and according to Gambling.com, Dallas has the best odds to be his next team at +150. The Hornets have the second-best odds at +275, meaning the odds are higher for Washington to end up in Dallas than to remain in Charlotte. The Cleveland Cavaliers are third on the list with +500 odds, and the Miami Heat are fourth with +700 odds.

Although the Mavs have also been linked to other power forwards such as Washington Wizards' Kyle Kuzma and Portland Trail Blazers' Jerami Grant, the price for those players might be too high for Dallas to afford. Washington, on the other hand, could be a more realistic option.

In 38 games, Washington has averaged 13.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game while shooting 45.2 percent from the field, including 34.8 percent from deep. In a 134-122 loss to the Utah Jazz on Saturday, Washington poured in 43 points on 17-22 shooting overall, including 7-9 from 3-point range.

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The 25-year-old would fit in nicely at the four in a Mavs starting lineup featuring Luka Doncic, Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II. With a little more than one week remaining until the trade deadline buzzer, we'll see if any traction gets started between the Mavs and Hornets on a potential deal.

Published Jan 29, 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.