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Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

Darius Acuff Jr. is UNDERRATED | Is He a Fit for the Dallas Mavericks?

Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Is Darius Acuff Jr. a sleeper pick for the Dallas Mavericks in the upcoming NBA Draft? Can the Mavs find their next great backcourt partner to pair with Cooper Flagg and learn under Kyrie Irving? Dive into an in-depth NBA Draft discussion packed with expert analysis, NBA draft rumors, and insight into how top prospects like Darius Acuff Jr. might fit with the Mavs.

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0:00.0

Is Darius Aikov Jr. out of Arkansas fit in Dallas is a little bit underrated right now or maybe even overrated on today's one more thing of Locked-on Mavs.

0:10.0

You are locked on the Dallas Mavericks. This is one of your host, Isaac Harris, covering the mass for the last 10 years alongside my good

0:21.5

friend Nick Engstead. Thanks for making the Locked On network, the number one sports podcasting

0:26.2

network out there. And today I'm talking about Darius Aikov Jr. out of Arkansas. It is draft

0:32.8

season. When you are a team that is prioritizing the ping pong balls in the month of February,

0:38.3

then draft season starts early.

0:40.8

And that's kind of where we're at with Dallas, right?

0:42.6

Like we're all tracking Tankathon for Dallas.

0:46.6

When you have a team that's going to have a top 10 draft pick, most likely.

0:51.2

And for Dallas, you know, this whole conversation, I love the NBA draft. We've done

0:56.8

multiple podcasts already. We're going to do so many more podcasts before before the draft lottery

1:02.7

and then after the draft lottery too. For Dallas, you know, we've said this a lot, but it is a

1:08.7

loaded draft up top. I think a lot of those guys would fit great in Dallas if you move up.

1:16.0

But even if you stay where you are and you don't move up and you're in that six, seven,

1:22.3

eight, nine range, somewhere through there, Dallas is in need of back back court help. They're in need of some more

1:30.2

playmakers and creators and guards moving forward in the future. And man, this is a draft to

1:37.5

kind of be in that range for it because there are a handful of guards through there that everybody

1:44.1

has a different order on right like

1:45.5

depending on which draft people that are way smarter than I am with the draft that

1:50.4

cover the draft year round 100% watch these guys and we have no ceilings you know that's

1:57.0

here locked on and I love the work of San Vecini and you know Raphael Barlow who now

2:02.5

works for the Mavs so we don't get his takes and stuff anymore publicly but when you

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