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Mike Curtis: Jason Kidd when asked for advice to players during trade deadline week, especially when you could play great one night & be gone the next: "That's in the small print of the contract. Sometimes we don't look at that or read that, but that's just being a pro...There was a trade in the (Celtics) locker room. You have to do your job. The guys in that locker room, they play hard. They play for each other...The business of basketball sometimes gets in the way. Those guys in that locker room are professionals that understand you could be traded after the game, before the game or during the game. We've seen it all. You see Naji has come out to say he loves playing for the Mavs, but he could be traded, right? And that's just the nature of the business. Sometimes it gets in the way."
Ron Harrod Jr.: Jason Kidd on his fine after the Rockets game: “I take full responsibility for my actions, my fine, but I said what I had to say.”
Jason Kidd on his fine after the Rockets game: “I take full responsibility for my actions, my fine, but I said what I had to say.” pic.twitter.com/SyRZ3VOtVd
— Ron Harrod Jr. (@RonKnowsSports) February 3, 2026
With Anthony Davis sidelined because of a hand injury, the belief around the league for weeks has been that the trade deadline will pass without a move. Davis has also made it clear he wants to stay in Dallas. So why is this still coming up? Windhorst: This will largely depend on what Dallas is willing to do with the expected return. In initial talks with teams, the Mavs were looking for a premium, including multiple first-round picks or a prime player, per sources -- textbook stuff when making a star available. There is also the matter of Davis eyeing an extension this summer. There were no takers.
NBA Communications: Dallas Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg and Charlotte Hornets guard-forward Kon Knueppel have been named the Kia NBA Western and Eastern Conference Rookies of the Month, respectively, for games played in January.
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Gilbert Arenas: Every player, if you know you're going to be done within two years, you should start cutting your losses to try to get back to as close as normal as possible, because if you don't have a job right after that, it's all negative income. When we were talking about hard bills, you're talking about light, cars, insurance, baby mamas, right? Paying your folks, paying their house, paying their cars, right? So some of y'all can leave and your hard bills 100,000, 150, 200, 300, hard bills. You remember like when you're playing in the NBA you're collecting bills. Anthony Davis, the house he just sold, $39 million. What you think that water bill is? That light bill, the grass bill, right? He's spending $45,000 probably a month just to upkeep it. Just that house, not the cars in that house, not family, friends, not other houses. So it's the hard bills that get us at the end. And it normally takes an athlete two years to adjust to his new life, because the embarrassment of selling sh*t cuz you don't want people to think you're broke. So you hold on to sh*t that you don't supposed to and going broke. And that happens a lot.
ESPN Cleveland: "The Cavs have talked to the Bucks about Giannis. The Cavs have talked to the Mavs about Anthony Davis," - @WindhorstESPN on Cavs trade talks.
"The Cavs have talked to the Bucks about Giannis. The Cavs have talked to the Mavs about Anthony Davis," - @WindhorstESPN on Cavs trade talks. https://t.co/Z0a97piJcq pic.twitter.com/gz5DaZJrPH
— ESPN Cleveland (@ESPNCleveland) February 3, 2026
Brian Windhorst: This will largely depend on what Dallas is willing to do with the expected return. In initial talks with teams, the Mavs were looking for a premium, including multiple first-round picks or a prime player, per sources -- textbook stuff when putting a star on the market. There is also the matter of Davis eying an extension this summer. There were no takers.
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Earvin Magic Johnson: I want to congratulate Mark Aguirre on his #24 jersey retirement with the Dallas Mavericks. I met Mark and Isiah Thomas 45 years ago after they were drafted to the NBA - we formed a friendship and started training in my hometown Lansing, MI and their hometown Chicago, IL that summer. Mark was a triple threat on the basketball court and virtually unstoppable. Look at how good God is, all three of us now have our jerseys retired by the teams we played for - myself with the Lakers, Isiah with the Pistons, and now Mark with the Mavericks!
Grant Afseth: The Dallas Mavericks will be without P.J. Washington (concussion protocol), while Brandon Williams (right lower leg contusion) is listed as questionable on the injury report against the Boston Celtics. Both players suffered injuries against the Houston Rockets on Sunday.
