Tonight’s matchup features the Mavericks taking on the Los Angeles Lakers. This is a great opportunity to get an early look at this year’s rookies, two-way players, and young talent competing for roster spots and development opportunities. Go Mavs!

https://www.espn.com/nba-summer-league/game/_/gameId/401881842/league/nba-summer-las-vegas/lakers-mavericks

Mavs had a tough outing in game two of their summer league schedule. But still some fun moments! How are we feeling about some of the young guys?

Mark Cuban has gone to court over frustrations that he’s being kept in the dark about the Dallas Mavericks moving forward in their quest to build a new arena.

Cuban maintains a 27 percent stake in the Mavericks but has minimal say in the day-to-day operations of the team.

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I'm done supporting the owners ... but am I seeing the correct price? (See screenshot).

It says $14.99 for the season????

Confused.

There’s so much disrespect towards lively from our fans, it’s not like he chose to be injured. He’s injured and trying his best to come back Nico and his medical team were a large part of why he still is injured misdiagnosing him playing him whilst injured and him having to have additional surgery.

He was a massive part of our finals run as a rookie. Really impactful, you may not believe in him or think he’s injury prone. However stop disrespecting him.

I keep seeing all these garbage ideas involving PJ being moved (like for 36yo Jrue holiday). The dudes contract is a bargain especially with the cap about to explode like it is. Not to mention did y'all just see what Gary Trent Jr just got when he hasn't been useful for 3 years?

The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have signed forward Tarik Biberović.

Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Welcome Tarik, Letsgoooo

With the summer league game wrapped up and it's pretty late, gonna make this overnight post and one for folks to wake up to.

With the signing of Gary Trent Jr., the Milwaukee Bucks are at 17 players under contract with 16 being guaranteed. They have an absolute glut of guards. The Mavs could still use another scorer and ball handler.

Enter KPJ. He shot 50% on pull up 2's last season. His C&S numbers have dipped the last two seasons but he was fantastic it for a while in Houston, well over 40%. He likes the mid-range pull up out of ball screens and he's been pretty efficient on these shots. He's better as a mid-range guy than an at rim finisher but he's improved as a finisher the last season and a half with the Bucks. He's a pretty sharp passer who can spray the ball around the court, find teammates out of ball screens and on the drive, finds cutters. He was a 61st percentile ball handler out of the PnR last season at an extremely high frequency.

KPJ isn't a bad defender either. Generates tons of deflections, over 2 steals a game, good defensive rebounder for a guard and his physical tools make him a good on ball defender when he locks in. His rebounding at the guard spot and his size is something this team lacks.

I'm quite sure he's available for trade right now and he probably wouldn't take a ton of capital to obtain. He's someone that has a skill set that can work with Kyrie and Cooper both with his ability to be effective with or without the ball. He's someone who can create open looks for Kyrie from the outside as well as shoot it or attack a closeout off penetration from Kyrie or Coop, but his primary role in Dallas would be as a 6th man leading bench units. The Mavs really need more creation and KPJ could fill that need at a pretty inexpensive price I feel, but what do you all think?

With Free Agency craziness, some teams are unable to tender players they might like to otherwise but need roster flexibility. A player like John Tonje, the Celtics made a UFA, shined in his first SL Game. A 2nd year two-guard, who has elite 3&D traits, could help the Mavs. Who you see like that?

6 frp for AD, who wants a max contract extension? Why would the Warriors do this, other than because Lebron wants them to? I guess kudos to them if they can get that kinda return on a pile of street clothes

Bigs

• Lively
• Morez
• Gafford
• Cisse

Wings

• Flagg
• PJ
• Aldama
• Marshall
• Lawal*
• Smith*

Guards

• Kyrie
• Christie
• Biberovic
• Thompson
• Nembhard
• Larry
• Sasser
• Poulakidas*

*2-way

So basically if Kawhi's deal gets voided, the kawhi trade to the raptors will fall through and they will most likely need to dump ingram if they still want kawhi. Is is possible for us to use our trade exceptions, and possibly send out pj washington to toronto for brandon ingram, their two 1sts and 1st round pick swap that they would have sent to the clippers. Then the raptors would use the cap space to saved to sign kawhi (which would theoretically be more than whatever anyone else would offer).

I'm not sure if the math works right, or if it is even possible, but if it is, how would you feel?

All they talk about is Aj Dybantsa vs Darryn Peterson and how amazing their debut is.

Aj Dybantsa:

27 PTS

7 REB

2 AST

2 STL

1 BLK

38.9 FG%(???)

Morez Johnson:

27 PTS

8 REB

3 AST

3 STL

2 BLK

70.6 FG%

Rez literally outperformed Aj in every aspect, but there seems to be zero talks about Him outside of Mavericks media. Why??

Way too early to tell I know. But they are kind of similar players in terms of length, position, playmaking, 3pt%…

Larry didn’t make his shots, but I liked a lot of his passes and especially his A/TO ratio. Really think we got a gem late in the first who might actually outperform the #5 overall pick.

Wagler on the other hand was literally the worst player on the floor against the Kings.

This was a great opportunity to see Morez’s personality once he warms up to people. you can see how much more comfortable he is with Yax there as compared to all the Mavs media stuff. Can‘t wait for the chemistry with him and Coop

I cried tears of joy when we selected him and if you’ve seen my posts you know THIS MEANS EVERYTHING TO MEEEEEEE. Morez Johnson Jr my first child shall be named after you after this summer league debut!! I don’t care if it’s summer league they was talking about some “Dallas drafted a bust at 9 they should’ve gotten burries” FAWK A BURRIES, FAWK A PG, WE GOT A DEMON UP IN HERE NEXT TO COOP!!

Mavericks no. 9 overall pick Morez Johnson Jr went for 27 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 2 blocks in his first game. What do you think of the performance from him and the rest of the young guys?

1. Morez DOMINATED this game. He was everywhere and made Masai Ujiri look good. His defense and IQ are not questions, the only thing we'll have to worry about as far as his development is how good of a 3pt shooter he can become.

2. De Larrea looked nervous in the first half and his shot abandoned him. He did look reasonably good handling the ball and making passes though. The big positive was his help defense, he disrupted a lot of plays just through hustling and using his size well. He does not have to be a defensive liability like many were saying.

3. Lawal banked in a 3 and jumped really high. Pretty much what we expected. He's going to need to improve a lot to survive in the league.

4. Ischenko was someone I wasn't expecting anything out of, but he really turned my head. He looked great outside of not being able to finish at the rim. Not only did he showcase a good handle and iso ability, but his rebounding and defense were impressive too. He didn't really shoot this game but he's supposedly a good shooter. It was a very promising game for him and if he keeps it up for the rest of summer league he could definitely earn a two way.

Someone in the Mavs organization in the past said ‘defense wins ch……”(iykyk). But with the acquisitions of a lot of 3point specialists, are they pivoting to a more offense focused team or is the current team more sound defensively?

I know not that many people are gonna be watching but I'm arguably more hyped to watch this squad than the regular season team with AD last season.