Mavericks Making MULTIPLE ROSTER MOVES Ahead Of 2025-26 NBA Season? | Mavs Rumors

Mavericks Making MULTIPLE ROSTER MOVES Ahead Of 2025-26 NBA Season? | Mavs Rumors

[Music] There are moves imminent for the Dallas Mavericks and we are going to talk about three moves that they have to make before the start of the 2526 NBA season right here on today’s show. Welcome in to Mavericks today by chat sports. Jeffrey Cooperstein here with you guys. Hope everyone is enjoying their week so far. Before we get started with today’s show, please go ahead and give me a follow on Twitter, jeff_coup27. I’m always bringing you the latest Mavericks news before you find it right here on the channel. My goal today is to get 10 followers on today’s show and I’ll give you a shout out if you give me a follow over there once again at Jeff_Coup 27. So, we’ll start with number one, which could be the potential extension coming from PJ Washington, who is eligible to sign an extension on August 29th. And by all accounts, it seems like the Mavericks in Washington are going to come to some sort of agreement. Now, his max is four years and $89 million. However, I don’t think the Mavericks and PJ are both aiming for that max deal. I think it’s going to be somewhere in the middle. And according to Tim McMahon of ESPN, he kind of agrees with that where he says, “I think it’s going to be at a number that he will probably be very tradable on.” Now, if you sign PJ to a 4-year $89 million deal, is that super tradable? Yes and no. I think it’s going to be somewhere in the 4 for72 range, which is right at around $18 million a season. I think you’ll find it between that 18 and 20 million per year range. Look, I don’t have enough good things to say about PJ Washington and his time with the Dallas Mavericks in over 86 games played. He has been a spiritual leader on this team and he has been an Energizer Bunny on this squad, averaging 13.7 points and seven rebounds. has shot pretty well from three as well is better than he did in Charlotte and they don’t make the NBA finals in 2024 without PJ and last year if they don’t have his presence out there they don’t make the NBA play in either and I know he did miss 25 games with injury but he really is a key part to this team and there were you know trade rumors throughout the offseason about whether the Mavericks would try to trade Daniel Gaffford or PJ Wasin to try to go get another caliber a starting caliber player here on this roster. While they extended Daniel Gaffford there in the early part of the 2025 NBA offseason and now when Washington becomes eligible here in just a couple of weeks, I expect the Mavericks and Washington to get this deal done. I think both of them want to get a deal done. So, I don’t think it will be a contentious negotiation by any means. If it does end up becoming some sort of a contentious negotiation, then perhaps, you know, the Mavericks and PJ could wait it out into the season and a trade could materialize right around the trade deadline. The Mavericks are built have built this team on their wing depth. They drafted Cooper Flag number one overall. You have Naji Marshall on there who’s going into the second year of his contract. Caleb Martin who they traded for at the 2025 NBA trade deadline. Former first round pick Olivier Max Prosper heading into year three in the league. So, this team really has an abundance of wing options, but PJ is at or near the top of that alongside Cooper Flag. I think you’re going to end up seeing Washington in the starting lineup, probably playing the three with Flag at the two alongside Davis and either Lively or Gaffford at the center spot. And look, I think Washington is has endeared himself to Mavericks fans. He became a fan favorite pretty instantly with his stand-on business during the magical run to the finals. He’s a Frisco Wakeland graduate, so he grew up in the area, has a connection to this team, and I believe that the Mavericks would like to keep PJ long term. I think PJ wants to stay in Dallas long term. He even said it after spending his the first part of his career in Charlotte. He was blessed to come to an organization like Dallas that has a lot of stability, has a winning culture, and has the ability to be at the top of the Western Conference every single season. So, I do think that this deal ends up getting done and I think it’s important that the Mavericks make this move before the start of the season. Do you want the Mavericks to extend PJ Washington? That is going to be our poll question here on today’s show. If you do, type E for extend. If you do not, type W for wait. Let me know down there in the comments section for today’s pin comment. Another move that the Mavericks must make before the start of the season is they have to make at least one trade. Why is that? Pretty simple. The Mavericks have 16 players on their roster and you’re only allowed 15 once you go into the start of the season. Look, I think this roster is very deep and very loaded. For purposes of this show, I did take Jaden Hardy out of here. So, you only see 15 names, but consider Hardy as part of this roster as well. So, here are your 15 guaranteed contracts right here and including your two-way guys at Ryan Nemhard and Miles Kelly. So, the Mavs roster is full. Now, you’re allowed to go into training camp with, I believe, up to 21 players on your roster. The Mavericks, as it stands, currently have 16 plus the two two-ways. So, the roster is full, which means the Mavericks simply have to make a move for with the fact that you can only have 15 guaranteed contracts on the roster does kind of give Nico Harrison a bit of a headache as we head into late August and September and October when the Mavericks really start kicking things back into gear. These are the four guys who I think have the most possibility of being traded by the Mavericks before the start of the season. Caleb Martin, who they acquired last season for Quinton Grimes and a second round pick. I look, I like Martin, the player, and Nico Harrison seems to really like Martin, but at the end of the day, I don’t know where the minutes come from for Caleb. Uh there injuries will happen. Of course, there will be backto-back and nights where guys are taking rest where they’re going to have to find minutes. And I think Martin could play a role there, but he’s only going to be a bit part player for this team. Jaden Hardy, in my opinion, his time with the Mavericks has kind of come and gone. I think he’s he’s used up all of his chances to try to make himself a part of this rotation. You know, he can give you buckets in uh in a short manner if you need that, but that’s literally all he can do is score. He’s not going to defend. He’s not going to playmake. He’s not a super efficient catch and shoot catch and shoot guy, which the Mavericks are going to need as well given the construction of this offense going forward. So, I don’t think it’s Jaden Hardy. And the same goes kind of form who is going into his third season. And to be fair to really haven’t had the chance uh for him to develop correctly because this team has been in a win now situation since the second he stepped in Dallas after the Mavericks uh you know traded for him in the first round of the 2023 NBA draft. I always had very high hopes for and I think it could work out for him with another team. I just don’t see it happening with this squad. that Dwight Pal, who’s going into the final year of his $4 million deal. I I the Mavericks aren’t going to trade Dwight Pal. He’s just going to sit and rot on the bench. He’s not going to play unless it’s in case of emergency. And the Mavericks trust him to play 10 to 15 minutes a night if they need to. In reality, I’m just going to narrow it down here to Jaden Hardy and Olivier Mox Prosper. I don’t think they’re going to trade Caleb Martin. I don’t think they’ll trade Dwight Pal. You I’ve mentioned Max Chris. He is a potential trade candidate before. I don’t think they would want to trade him either. So, it’ll be one of those two guys who get moved on. Maybe the Mavericks even have to attach an asset like a late second round pick or something like that in order to get rid of one of the two. But that’s where I see things standing once we start this season. I think one of Hardy will not be on this roster. We’ll get to the final move the Mavericks have to make here in just a moment. But before we do that, we have a really cool opportunity for you guys. When you go to chatsports.com/kyrie, you can get yourself a Kyrie Irving jersey today. Kyrie is rehabbing from his torn ACL, but he is still the leader of this Mavs squad. And Kyrie, a future Hall of Famer playing for the Mavs. If you don’t have a Kyrie Irving jersey, what are you doing? Head to chatsports.com/kyrie right now. That link will be in the comments and description of today’s show. And when you use that link, we get a part of the proceeds as well. So, you’re supporting the channel while going and getting yourself a dope Kyrie Irving jersey. All sizes and colors are still available. One more time, it’s chatforce.com/kyrie. I touched on this briefly last show, but the Mavericks still do need to sign a final two-way guy. They have Ryan Nemhard, the rookie out of Gonzaga, and Miles Kelly, the rookie out of Auburn, as their two guys on the two-way contracts right now. So, you you are allowed three two-way contracts. The Mavericks will not be signing uh Kai Jones to a two-way deal because he is ineligible and he went and worked out for the Miami Heat. So, it sounds like he’s potentially heading to Miami or even over to Europe. and Kesler Edwards, who was also on a two-way deal with the Mavericks last year, just recently signed with the Denver Nuggets, but he’s also ineligible as well. So, if you’re wondering what happened to those two guys on the Mavs roster, they are no longer here in Dallas. Here are the five two-way candidates that I see that the Mavericks could potentially be signing to that final spot before the season begins. Jamaran Sharp, Maxwell Lewis, Jordan Hall, Musa Cisi, and Matthew Cleveland. But I really think it’s a two-way battle between Jamarian Sharp and Musi, the two big men. All of these guys played for the Mavericks here in the 2025 NBA summer league out in Las Vegas. But I think if the Mavericks are really looking for someone to contribute to this team, I’m thinking they’re going to want a big guy because, you know, the injury uh the injury-prone guys that the Mavericks have in their big man rotation and Anthony Davis and Derek Lively, Daniel Gaffford, while not super injuryprone, does miss a decent chunk of time. And if you have that, if all of those guys are getting hurt and in and out of the lineup, you really want depth at that big man spot. So, I think it’ll be between those two guys. It also could be someone else out there that we just haven’t even mentioned yet. Maybe Nico Harrison and the Maverick scouting department have their eye on someone that we have no idea even exists yet. That is an entire that’s entirely possible. Or maybe they go into training camp and they have a a true battle, a true competition to see who ends up getting that final spot. So, we’ll see what happens here in the coming days and weeks, but I do think that the Dallas Mavericks are going to sign someone here to the two-way spot before the start of the season. They could leave it open if they wanted to, but what’s the fun in that? So, hopefully they sign someone here and they fill out that roster before they kick off against the San Antonio Spurs in the third week in October. I want you guys to be the GM for me down in the comment section. What is one move you would make before the season if you were Nico Harrison? Let me know down there in the comments. And I appreciate everyone for tuning in to Mavericks Today by Chat Sports. If you haven’t already, please hit that subscribe button at youtube.com/mavstv. And one more time, give me a follow on Twitter, jeff_coup27, as we’re always bringing you the latest Mavericks updates. 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Mavericks GM Nico Harrison has work ahead of him before Dallas Mavericks vs. San Antonio Spurs to open the 2025-26 NBA Season. The Mavericks roster currently has 16 guaranteed contracts, but the NBA only allows 15 heading into the season so the Mavericks Roster Move will have to come via trading someone like Jaden Hardy, Olivier-Maxence Prosper or Dwight Powell to create roster room. The PJ Washington Extension window opens on August 29, and Dallas would like to get PJ signed long-term before the season begins. We discuss all of the roster moves coming for the Mavericks on today’s show!

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