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According a source familiar with the rehabilitation plan, Harper is unlikely to play during the preseason. The team has not ruled out the possibility Harper might be cleared in time for the Oct. 24 regular-season opener at Dallas, if not long thereafter.

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Shams Charania: Dallas Mavericks forward PJ Washington has agreed to a four-year, $90 million contract extension with the franchise, agent Kevin Bradbury of LIFT Sports Management told ESPN. Washington secures a new deal that keeps him in Dallas through 2029-30.

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Washington, 27, had one season left on his deal for $14.1 million and now secures an extension that keeps him in Dallas through 2029-30. Washington's four-year extension means the Mavericks have reached agreements with all key members of their roster eligible for new deals this offseason, including All-Star Kyrie Irving and center Daniel Gafford (three-year extensions).

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Dallas Mavericks PR: The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have re-signed guard Danté Exum. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a related move, Dallas has requested waivers on forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper.

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Even after all this time, Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban still has sour grapes about how the series ended for his team and claimed that the championship series was “stolen” from Dallas. “We hurt in 2006 after it was stolen from us, right?” Cuban said. “And I’ll take that to my grave that it was stolen from us.”

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The reason: Friday at 5 PM ET is the deadline for a player to be released via the league's waive-and-stretch provision. More than one well-placed league observer has conveyed to me that Dallas might ultimately be forced to waive-and-stretch one contract to clear the way for signing Exum rather than attaching draft capital to a player such as Prosper just to make a move.

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Arash Markazi: The Luka Doncic Overwatch signage in Dallas wasn’t without controversy from the Mavericks side apparently. According to sources, Mavericks ownership made them move the original location of the billboard. They felt that it was too close to the arena. They weren’t happy.

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You've been handed the keys to the Lakers and all the pressure in the world. Take us to where we want to go. Take us to ring-land. That pressure has got to be ginormous." Sasha Vujacic: "100%. And I think that—not to diss Dallas—but I think Luka's light and capability were way too big for the Dallas spotlight. I think Luka is the perfect guy that we need in L.A. to carry us to that next championship. I said it a long time ago when I watched him play—there are glimpses I see from Kobe, like in his eyes. He plays with a smile, but he wants to kill you."

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Carpenter got his start as a student manager at Virginia before joining Carlisle in Dallas as assistant video coordinator for the Mavericks during the 2014-15 season. He then returned to Virginia, rising through the ranks until moving to the NBA with the Memphis Grizzlies last season.

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League sources tell The Stein Line that an extension for Washington is likely. While he is no longer an automatic starter in Dallas after the Mavericks stunningly won the draft lottery in May and the right to select Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 overall pick, Washington only just turned 27 himself on Saturday and has no shortage of admirers in front offices around the league.

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Griffin said Dallas is the perfect landing spot for Flagg. “I love that he’s in Dallas,” Griffin said. “I think they have a really solid team around him. Most No. 1 picks are going to teams that haven’t been doing too great in the past. But I’m just excited for him to start this journey.”

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Former NBA center Shawn Bradley attended the BIG3’s Week 10 matchups, where he was seen chatting with Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal Sunday in Dallas. Bradley, who was the Sixers’ No. 2 overall pick in the 1993 NBA Draft, was paralyzed from the chest down after a bicycle accident in St. George, Utah, on Jan. 20, 2021. The 7-foot-6 Bradley — who had a 12-year NBA career and stints with the then-New Jersey Nets and Dallas Mavericks — was in his Quantum Rehab motorized wheelchair as he and his wife Carrie posed for photos with O’Neal at American Airlines Arena.

New York Post

Brett Siegel: Number of National TV games for 2025-26 NBA season (ESPN, ABC, NBC, & Amazon): Atlanta: 13, Boston: 25, Brooklyn: 2, Charlotte: 3, Chicago: 3, Cleveland: 24, Dallas: 23, Denver: 26, Detroit: 16, Golden State: 34, Houston: 28, Indiana: 9, Los Angeles Clippers: 21, Los Angeles Lakers: 34, Memphis: 10, Miami: 5, Milwaukee: 18, Minnesota: 28, New Orleans: 2, New York: 34, Oklahoma City: 34, Orlando: 14, Philadelphia: 14, Phoenix: 9, Portland: 8, Sacramento: 9, San Antonio: 22, Toronto: 2, Utah: 2, Washington: 2

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They famously met in the 2024 NBA Finals, when Kristaps was playing for the Boston Celtics and Luka was still with the Mavericks, and Porzingis won the championship. Speaking to Latvian media ahead of EuroBasket, Porzingis addressed their relationship since their Dallas days. “I have a normal relationship with Luka Doncic. Of course, the time in Dallas didn’t work out. It’s a chapter that’s over. Since then, we’ve met a lot – the Celtics and the Mavericks faced each other in the Finals last year. In the European context, it seems like we haven’t played since 2017,” Porzingis said, according to sportacentrs.com.

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