Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast offseason preview series where Bryce Simon and I

dive deep into all of the big decisions that NBA teams have to make this summer today.

We're talking about the big winner of the 2025 NBA draft lottery, the Dallas Mavericks.

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Bryce, the Dallas Mavericks are in a fascinating position because they have won the Cooper

flag sweepstakes.

It looks real bad there for a second when they traded Luca Donchich and Kyrie Irving went down for most of next season it feels like with an injury.

But they were lucky enough to get Cooper Flagg.

And that changes just about everything for them organizationally.

I will be interested to see how they attack it.

But where are you at as we head into this and as we start this discussion?

Yeah.

I mean, it's fascinating.

I think the first thing I think of with the Mavericks whenever I think about them is,

like where do they go with the roster?

Because there does seem to be a little bit of a log jam in the front court.

And it's not a bad situation to be in when you have all of Derek Lively the second,

Daniel Gafford, Anthony Davis, Cooper Flagg, PJ Washington.

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