Mavericks Rumors

Mavericks Notes: Washington, Arena, Welts, Klay

March 12th, 2025 at 6:30pm CST by Alex Kirschenbaum

Mavericks forward P.J. Washington has been on the shelf for Dallas’ last five contests due to a sprained right ankle. He saw his injury status upgraded to questionable ahead of the club’s latest clash with Texas rival San Antonio on Wednesday, according to The Athletic’s Christian Clark (Twitter link).

With an hour to go before game time, however, Mavericks head coach Jason Kidd revealed that Washington would miss his sixth consecutive contest, according to Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News (via Twitter).

Kidd noted that the Dallas was optimistic about Washington’s chances to make his return on Friday against another Lone Star State nemesis, the Rockets.

In 47 games this season, the 6’7″ forward is averaging 14.0 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.3 blocks for the Mavericks.

According to Dallas’ pregame injury report (Twitter link), only nine healthy players will be available against San Antonio, with Brandon Williams upgraded to available after missing Monday’s game due to a hamstring issue.

There’s more out of Dallas:

Dallas City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert has issued a statement regarding construction on the Mavericks’ proposed new arena, Townsend reports for The Dallas Morning News (subscriber link). “The Mavericks have called the City of Dallas home for the last 45 years,” Tolbert said Tuesday in a statement. “We are committed to the long-term relationship we have established with them and are working closely with team officials to keep them in Dallas — where they belong.” The nearby city of Irving is open to rezoning which could open up a 182-acre terrain that owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp. Mavericks governor Patrick Dumont serves as Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s COO. The area could include a new arena, a destination resort and a possible casino.
Mavericks CEO Rick Welts stressed to Townsend that, within the next year, the team plans to find a site that sits on 30-50 acres that the team’s ownership group can develop into a new arena plus a “full-blown entertainment district.” “What we’re saying to the city is we want to exhaust every possible option in the city of Dallas before considering pivoting to another location in the Metroplex,” Welts told Townsend. “That’s our commitment. That’s our desire. That’s the outcome we want, to be doing this project in the city of Dallas.”
With Luka Doncic plying his trade for Los Angeles and All-Stars Kyrie Irving and Anthony Davis — plus several other key contributors — out due to injuries, the Mavericks’ path to postseason glory looks narrow indeed. Dallas is currently 33-33 on the year, having recently snapped a five-game skid with a win against the Spurs on Monday. Klay Thompson, who signed a lucrative free agent contract to leave Golden State for the Mavericks last summer, is trying to look at the bright side of the team’s seemingly dire situation, according to Townsend in a separate article (subscriber link). “We still want to make a run,” Thompson said. “The injuries have been awful, but I still love our team… I’m here for two more seasons after this, so I would love to help them return to the glory that they were brought to in 2011.”

And-Ones: Eaglestaff, Kyrie, Australia, MVP Race, Rookies, More

March 12th, 2025 at 9:51am CST by Luke Adams

North Dakota junior Treysen Eaglestaff will enter the NCAA’s transfer portal while testing the NBA draft waters, agent George S. Langberg tells Jonathan Givony of ESPN (Twitter link).

Eaglestaff wasn’t included in Givony’s most recent top-100 list of prospects for the 2025 draft, but he had a strong season as a scorer for the Fighting Hawks in 2024/25, averaging 18.9 points per game on 416/.359/.794 shooting in 33 outings.

Eaglestaff’s scoring average was buoyed by some massive performances, including a 51-point outburst in the quarterfinals of the Summit League tournament against South Dakota State last Friday. The 6’6″ shooting guard also put up 40 points in a loss to Alabama on December 18. He knocked down a career-high eight three-pointers in both of those games.

Here are a few more odds and ends from around the basketball world:

There may be too many hurdles to clear to make it actually happen, but after Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving expressed interest in playing for the Australian national team at the 2028 Olympics, Hawks guard Dyson Daniels is fully on board with the idea, per Grant Afseth of RG.org. “Oh yeah, I love it. I love it,” Daniels said. “I know he wants to do it. We want him to come play for us. There’s a lot of stuff that has to get cleared for him to come play, but we welcome him with open arms. He’s a brother. He’s an Australian.” Irving has Australian citizenship, but he previously played for Team USA in international competitions, so both USA Basketball and FIBA would need to sign off for him to play for the Boomers.
In a pair of stories for The Athletic, one panel of NBA writers debates which player is most deserving of this season’s MVP award, while another panel takes a closer look at an uninspiring race for the No. 10 spot in the Eastern Conference. While a recent three-game winning streak for the Bulls has put them in prime position for a play-in spot, the general consensus on the MVP race is that it remains too close to call between Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic.
Elsewhere at the Athletic, draft expert Sam Vecenie has updated his rookie rankings for the 2024/25 class, placing a pair of Grizzlies – Jaylen Wells and Zach Edey – in his top three, sandwiching Spurs guard Stephon Castle at No. 2. First overall pick Zaccharie Risacher of the Hawks and Heat big man Kel’el Ware round out Vecenie’s top five.
It has been five years since the NBA shut down its 2019/20 season due to COVID-19. In an extensive oral history, Baxter Holmes and Tim MacMahon of ESPN revisit that period, sharing a number of interesting behind-the-scenes details on how the league came to its decision and how teams and players reacted.

Mavs’ Two-Way Players Approaching Active-Game Limits

March 11th, 2025 at 3:10pm CST by Luke Adams

Injuries have decimated the Mavericks‘ roster and have compromised their ability to compete in the second half of this season. The team had just nine healthy players active on Sunday and saw that number drop to eight in the second game of a back-to-back on Monday.

While at least a couple of Dallas’ inactive players – Kyrie Irving and Olivier-Maxence Prosper – have sustained season-ending injuries, there’s still hope that some of the others on the injured list will be able to return in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the club will have to get by with what it has.

The Mavs’ limitations are exacerbated by the fact that they imposed a hard cap on themselves at the first tax apron by completing certain roster moves (including using the non-taxpayer mid-level exception and acquiring a player via sign-and-trade) early in the 2024/25 league year, then spent nearly all the way up to that hard cap in player salaries.

Dallas is currently operating with a team salary of $178,080,852, which is a mere $51,148 below the first apron. Because a veteran-minimum free agent addition would count toward the cap at a rate of $11,997 per day, the Mavs can’t sign a 15th man until April 10, when there are just four days left in the season.

There’s another set of limitations the Mavericks will have to be aware of as they set their active roster for games this month. Players on two-way contracts can’t be active for more than 50 regular season games if they signed before the start of the regular season. That limit becomes a prorated portion of 50 games if a player signed at some point after the season began.

Here’s what that means for Dallas’ trio of two-way players:

Kessler Edwards: Five active games remaining.
Brandon Williams: Eight active games remaining.
Kai Jones: 11 active games remaining.

Edwards’ restriction is the most concerning. The former Pepperdine standout has become Dallas’ de facto starting center due to the team’s litany of frontcourt injuries and has emerged as a crucial contributor. In Monday’s win over San Antonio, he registered his first double-double of the season, with 22 points and 11 rebounds in 35 minutes.

But if the Mavericks keep Edwards active going forward, he’ll reach his 50-game limit on March 21, with 11 games still left in the season. And he can’t be promoted to the 15-man roster at that point due to the Mavs’ aforementioned hard cap — if the team wants to promote him, it would have to wait until April 10 to do so.

The restrictions facing Williams and Jones aren’t quite as critical, especially since both players are currently among Dallas’ walking wounded. Williams missed Monday’s game with left hamstring tightness, while Jones has been out for three games due to a left quad strain.

Of course, while that means Williams and Jones may not eat up their remaining active games in the short term, having them among the many Mavericks on the injury list is a problem in its own right. Jones’ absence is especially unfortunate, given that he was just signed on March 3 so that the team could add some size and take advantage of the 12 games he’d be eligible to play in.

Jones had 21 points and eight rebounds in his Mavs debut, but hasn’t been able to suit up since then. And the club doesn’t have the ability to replace him (or Edwards or Williams) with a new two-way player, since the deadline for signing two-way deals passed on March 4.

When a team is hit particularly hard by injuries, the NBA has the ability to grant hardship exceptions, which allow the team to temporarily exceed its usual 15-man standard roster. But hardship deals still count against the cap and can’t be used to circumvent hard-cap rules, so they’re of little use to the Mavericks, who would have otherwise qualified for more than one of them in recent weeks.

The only way Dallas would have a chance to free up more flexibility below its hard cap would be to reach a buyout agreement with a player that reduces his salary or to cut a player and hope he gets claimed on waivers. The former option probably isn’t realistic; the latter might hurt more than it would help, since it would cost the Mavs a player good enough to warrant a waiver claim.

While it’ll be interesting to see if Dallas can hang onto the 10th spot in the Western Conference and qualify for the play-in, at this point it would be a victory for the team if it can just get through the season’s last few weeks without suffering any more injuries or wearing out any of its remaining healthy players.

Southwest Notes: Tate, Spencer, Morant, Mavs, Zion

March 11th, 2025 at 10:21am CST by Luke Adams

Jae’Sean Tate only played the final 2:27 of the Rockets‘ win over Orlando on Monday, but it was a big night for the veteran forward. As Bobby Marks of ESPN tweets, Tate earned a $500K bonus as a result of Houston’s victory.

Tate’s contract includes language that assures him of that bonus if the Rockets win at least 40 regular season games, and Monday’s win was their 40th of the season. Since Houston finished last season with a 41-41 record, the bonus had been considered “likely” and was already incorporated into Tate’s cap hit, so the fact that he earned it again won’t affect Houston’s cap situation.

Here’s more from around the Southwest:

Grizzlies rookie Cam Spencer had the best game of his young career on Monday, scoring a season-high 16 points in 20 minutes to help Memphis eke out a win over Phoenix and talking trash to Suns star Kevin Durant along the way, as Damichael Cole of The Memphis Commercial Appeal details.“He’s psycho,” teammate Ja Morant told Grind City Media in his post-game interview. “But I love it though.” Morant added that he planned cover the $2,000 fine that will accompany the technical foul Spencer received following his interaction with Durant.
With just eight healthy players available on Monday, including one (Caleb Martin) on a minutes restriction and none over 6’8″, the Mavericks were still able to pull out a win over San Antonio, pushing their lead over Phoenix for the No. 10 seed in the West back to 2.5 games. “High school, that’s what it feels like sometimes, because we’re so small,” Klay Thompson said, per Eddie Sefko of Mavs.com. “But we got a lot of heart. So, heart over height, you know?”
Rod Walker of NOLA.com argues that the Pelicans are doing their fans a disservice by sitting star forward Zion Williamson in New Orleans in instances where they have back-to-back sets consisting of one road game and one home game. While Walker’s argument is understandable, it’s worth noting that the NBA’s player participation policy, which applies this season to Williamson, discourages teams from resting players on the road.

Stein’s Latest: Davis, Lively, Mavs, Durant, Billups, More

March 10th, 2025 at 3:57pm CST by Rory Maher

Perhaps the most interesting development in Sunday’s matchup between Phoenix and Dallas was something that took place off the court, as Mavericks big man Anthony Davis was on the bench and was “clearly itching to play,” according to NBA insider Marc Stein (Substack link).

Stein hears that Davis played some 2-on-2 over the weekend for the first time since he strained his left adductor on February 8 in his Dallas debut.

League sources tell Stein that both Davis and Dereck Lively, who is on the mend from a stress fracture in his right ankle, are on track to get healthy before the end of the season. However, that doesn’t mean they’ll actually suit up again for the Mavericks in 2024/25.

Amid a brutal wave of injuries, including losing Kyrie Irving to a torn ACL, the Mavs have dropped five straight games and are only 1.5 games ahead of Phoenix for the final play-in spot in the Western Conference. And even if they hold onto the No. 10 seed, they’d have to win two straight road games in the play-in tournament to advance as the No. 8 seed, only to face the top-seeded Thunder in the first round.

As Stein observes, any hope the Mavericks had of another deep playoff run have been extinguished. Prioritizing the team’s odds of securing a lottery pick — and avoiding the possibility of Davis and Lively re-injuring themselves — is the most logical path for Dallas to take for the remainder of ’24/25.

Here’s more from Stein:

Although the Mavericks have been “repeatedly described” as a possible suitor for Suns forward Kevin Durant, both before and after last month’s trade deadline, Stein hears Dallas’ interest in Durant has been “overstated.” The Mavs’ depth would take a major blow if they try to trade for Durant, Stein notes, and they also lack future draft capital, which is why focusing on landing a lottery pick in June’s draft makes sense. Retaining Irving, who holds a $44MM player option for ’25/26, is a “priority” for Dallas, per Stein.
When asked by Stein how strange it was to play in Dallas knowing that the Mavericks traded away Luka Doncic, Suns guard Devin Booker replied, “You can feel it. You can feel it when you land.”
Scouts and executives from around the NBA are very curious what the future holds for Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, according to Stein. Before — and even during — the season, many around the league believed the two sides were destined to part ways, but Portland’s improved play has observers wondering if the team will exercise its option on Billups or perhaps give him a new contract. If the Blazers decide not to retain Billups, he would become an “in-demand coaching free agent,” Stein writes.
Hawks head coach Quin Snyder, Wizards assistant Adam Caporn, former Germany head coach Gordon Herbert, and veteran NBA assistant Will Weaver are among the the candidates to be named the next head coach of Australia’s national team, according to Stein. The Boomers finished in sixth place at the 2024 Olympics in Paris after claiming their first medal in men’s basketball — a bronze — in Tokyo.

Mavs Notes: Edwards, Powell, Williams, Thompson, Durant, Irving

March 9th, 2025 at 8:37pm CST by Dana Gauruder

The Mavericks’ injury woes grew to almost laughable proportions on Sunday. During the fourth quarter of their loss to the Suns, coach Jason Kidd literally had no options on the bench, according to Eddie Sefko of Mavs.com.

Dwight Powell and Kessler Edwards banged heads during the third quarter and both required stitches. Edwards was able to return with 6:05 left in the fourth quarter. Point guard Brandon Williams pulled up just before the third-quarter buzzer and did not return due to left hamstring soreness. With Dante Exum on a minutes restriction, Kidd had to go with what he had left.

“Never seen this,” Kidd said. “Never been in a game that we could not take someone out to rest them because we had no one to put in. They were either in clothes or in the back getting stitches. It is what it is. We got to keep pushing forward.”

The Mavs had eight players ruled out prior to the game and they won’t be available on Monday when Dallas faces San Antonio. They’re not in a position to add anyone else due to financial restrictions, so they will be severely shorthanded.

“We’ll try to figure it out as we go. We can’t sign anybody and Duds (assistant coach Jared Dudley) costs too much,” Kidd quipped. “You got to laugh because if you don’t, this will drive you crazy.”

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Due to the depleted roster, Klay Thompson is receiving extra attention on the defensive end, Sefko notes. Thompson managed to score 20 points in the nine-point loss to Phoenix and has averaged 23 PPG over the last three games. “They’re going to take away Klay anyway,” Kidd said. “So just for the sake of the team, hopefully they don’t take away Klay and we can get some easy looks for him. But it’s a team game. We got to generate shots. Someone has to be able to touch the paint with the ball . . . and we got to be able to knock down open shots.”
Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving‘s teammate with Brooklyn, expects the high-scoring guard to play at an All-Star level again after he recovers from his season-ending ACL injury. “Any human would be upset, pissed off. Curious as to why this happened. You go through those emotions. Then the faster you get over that, the faster your recovery will be,” Durant said, per Christian Clark of The Athletic (Twitter link). “Kyrie is a hard worker. He’s disciplined every single day — his regimen, his routine. That’s why he’s so great. He’s so great, I’m expecting him to come back and be the same Kyrie. Expecting him to come back and lead Dallas and be the same team they’ve always been. We all can’t wait to see him back on the floor.”
In case you missed it, second-year forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper has a significant right wrist injury and is expected to require season-ending surgery. Get the details here.

Kyrie Irving Gets Get-Well Wishes From Ja Morant, Defends Coach Jason Kidd On Instagram

March 8th, 2025 at 9:54pm CST by Arthur Hill

Following Friday’s game, Morant expressed get-well wishes to Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving, who suffered a season-ending ACL tear Monday night, per Rashad Miller of Dallas Hoops Journal. Morant revealed that during the lowest points of his career, Irving reached out to him to provide support and advice. “That relationship kind of just hit different,” Morant said. “In a time where pretty much the whole world is talking down on you, and you have somebody to lift you up. He has always been that guy for me.”
Irving is defending Mavericks coach Jason Kidd against complaints that an oversized workload led to the ACL injury, relays Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News. On his Instagram account (Twitter link), Irving posted a photo of the play where he got hurt while trying to split two defenders, along with the caption “Too many minutes??? Or did I get knocked off balance?”
Two-way point guard Brandon Williams was outstanding on Friday, scoring 31 points in 34 minutes to help the Mavericks stay close, Curtis adds in a separate story. Kidd indicated that Williams will continue to be given chances to succeed. “He’s fighting to get a job and he’s got a great opportunity to get an NBA contract and not be on a two-way,” Kidd said. “That’s our job is to hopefully put him in a position to do that, here or somewhere else.”

Southwest Notes: Fox, Rockets, Jackson, Jensen

March 8th, 2025 at 2:55pm CST by Luke Adams

De’Aaron Fox has been playing this season with a dislocated left pinky finger, according to Mike Monroe of The Athletic, who says that the Spurs guard is expected to undergo surgery sooner or later to address the injury. With San Antonio falling out of play-in contention, that procedure could even happen before the end of the season so that the recovery process doesn’t extend too far into the offseason, Monroe notes.

“Oh, obviously, for me and (general manager Brian Wright), we’ve talked about the surgery thing,” Fox said. “At some point, I’m going to have to get it, but we’ll see where we are before that comes.”

Speaking to reporters on Friday in Sacramento after a loss to his former team, Fox pointed to March 17 as a possible date for the procedure, according to Tom Orsborn of The San Antonio Express-News (Twitter link). The Spurs will be in Los Angeles at that time for a rescheduled game vs. the Lakers and Fox said he’ll have the injury evaluated by a specialist in L.A. during that trip.

“The surgery may or may not happen that day,” he said.

Here’s more from around the Southwest:

Veteran center Steven Adams has served as a backup to Rockets starter Alperen Sengun for most of the season, but the two big men shared the court for seven minutes against New Orleans on Thursday and Houston outscored the Pelicans 23-5 during that time, per Danielle Lerner of The Houston Chronicle (subscription required). “It’s good because it’s something new,” Adams said after the win. “It’s just engaging. Also, a lot of my career has been spent that way as well, playing double-big lineup anyway. It’s just good, just figuring it out and I feel like we play with each other pretty well, just gravitate the defense. In a sort of way it’s a different look, so I think it’s a pretty useful tool going forward.”
In a Rockets-centric mailbag for The Athletic, Kelly Iko takes a look at Houston’s cap situation going forward, explains why Cam Whitmore is out of the rotation, and considers what the team’s optimal starting lineup would look like. Even though Amen Thompson has thrived in the starting five, Iko thinks it might benefit the Rockets as a whole to move him back to the bench, with Jabari Smith reclaiming his starting spot.
Santi Aldama returned to action on Friday for the Grizzlies following a two-game absence due to a right calf strain and Jaren Jackson Jr., who has missed two games with a left ankle sprain, might not be too far behind him. According to Chris Herrington of The Daily Memphian (Twitter link), Jackson was on the floor for the team’s shootaround on Friday morning, dribbling and getting up shots. The team said on Tuesday that the big man is considered “week to week.”
Although Mavericks assistant Alex Jenson has accepted the head coaching job at the University of Utah, he’ll finish out the season in Dallas before officially transitioning into that new position with the Utes, he tells NBA insider Marc Stein (Twitter link).

Windhorst/Bontemps’ Latest: Mavs, Lakers, Warriors, Blazers

March 7th, 2025 at 8:27pm CST by Luke Adams

Back in 2023, the Mavericks acquired Kyrie Irving in a trade-deadline blockbuster, missed the postseason, then used a lottery pick that June to draft Dereck Lively, who played a major role on the team that made the NBA Finals in 2024. An injury-plagued Mavs team appears headed for a repeat of their 2023 finish this spring and may need to replicate their ’23 draft lottery success this offseason in order to put themselves in position to bounce back in 2025/26, as Brian Windhorst and Tim Bontemps write for ESPN.com (Insider link).

“When you have a setback like they’ve suffered, you have to identify what you can control and focus on improvement there,” a league executive told Windhorst. “They don’t control their first-round pick from 2027 to 2030, and this is a good draft.”

While Bontemps advocated on a recent Hoop Collective podcast for the Mavericks to trade Anthony Davis this summer, there’s no indication the organization will consider taking a step back by exploring that possibility.

One league executive told Bontemps that the Mavs are “doubling down” on their current group, while another predicted that the team will sign Irving to a long-term contract this summer even as he recovers from an ACL tear. That exec suggested the deal could start below Irving’s $43MM player option for 2025/26 in order to give the club some extra cap flexibility next season.

As for the Mavs’ outlook for the rest of this season? There’s not much optimism on that front from outside observers, given how thoroughly the roster has been decimated by health issues.

“Dallas is just hopeless right now,” one scout told ESPN. “There’s just no scoring ability without Kyrie. There’s just not enough talent with all these injuries.”

Here’s more from Windhorst and Bontemps:

Within a discussion about whether or not the Lakers‘ recent defensive performance is sustainable, Windhorst notes that the Luka Doncic trade has had an added benefit in Los Angeles beyond the addition of the 25-year-old superstar. “They didn’t just trade for Luka,” one league executive said. “They also traded for a more engaged LeBron (James).” Head coach J.J. Redick told reporters last week that James has been playing at an All-Defensive level as of late.
Although Jimmy Butler‘s numbers with Golden State have been modest – his .451 FG% and .143 3PT% are well below his career rates – the Warriors have a +13.5 net rating during his 341 minutes so far and he has transformed the team into a far more dangerous postseason opponent. “No one will want to play them in the playoffs,” one scout told Bontemps. “Jimmy with fresh legs and motivation … honeymoon-phase Jimmy is a motherf—er. … He’s not a franchise player in that he doesn’t do it in the regular season, but when it comes to the playoffs, he’s a franchise player. He’s a superstar when you need to be winning.”
Rival executives and scouts have been impressed by the Trail Blazers, who have won 15 of their last 22 games and remain in the postseason hunt, just four games back of No. 10 Dallas. Head coach Chauncey Billups has earned praise for how he has handled the rotation. “They have their guys in the right roles now,” one Eastern Conference scout told Bontemps. “It’s not that they don’t believe in [Shaedon] Sharpe now that he’s their scorer off the bench, but that’s the best role for him right now with this current team. … You go up and down the roster, and specifically with the young guys, that’s helped them a lot.”

Mavs’ Prosper Expected To Require Season-Ending Wrist Surgery

March 7th, 2025 at 5:03pm CST by Luke Adams

The bad injury news keeps coming for the Mavericks, according to Shams Charania of ESPN, who reports (via Twitter) that second-year forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper has a significant right wrist injury and is expected to require season-ending surgery. Prosper has been diagnosed with ligament damage in that wrist, Charania adds (via Twitter).

The 24th overall pick in the 2023 draft, Prosper didn’t play major minutes in the first half of Dallas’ season, but has become a more frequent member of the rotation in recent weeks as the team’s injuries have piled up.

Since January 20, Prosper has appeared in all 21 of the Mavericks’ games and made four starts. During that stretch, the 22-year-old has averaged 5.9 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 1.1 assists in 17.0 minutes per night, with a .410/.207/.689 shooting line. For the season, he has registered 3.9 PPG, 2.4 RPG, and 0.8 APG in 11.2 MPG across 52 appearances.

Prosper is under contract for $3MM next season. Dallas will have to decide by October 31, 2025 whether or not to pick up his $5.26MM option for the 2026/27 season.

In addition to Prosper, the Mavericks’ injury list currently includes Anthony Davis (adductor strain), Kyrie Irving (ACL tear), Daniel Gafford (knee sprain), Jaden Hardy (ankle sprain), Dereck Lively (ankle stress fracture), P.J. Washington (ankle sprain), and Kai Jones (quad strain). Many of those players have already missed several weeks or will be out for an extended period going forward — or both.

The one piece of good news in Dallas is that Caleb Martin, acquired at last month’s trade deadline, has been cleared to make his Mavs debut on Friday vs. Memphis, according to head coach Jason Kidd (Twitter link via Christian Clark of The Athletic). Kidd said there are “no expectations” for Martin in his first game with his new team, tweets Mike Curtis of The Dallas Morning News.

“He’s going to (play) 15 minutes. The biggest expectation is to be healthy coming out of this,” Kidd said. “For his 15 minutes, we hope that it’s going to be a great experience.”

Mavericks guard Dante Exum will also be available on Friday after missing one game with a right foot contusion, Kidd confirmed.

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