Has Keaton Wagler’s Rise Made Him the Best Choice for the Dallas Mavericks in the 2026 NBA Draft?
Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | One more thing. Dallas Mavericks look like they're stuck in seven to nine in the NBA draft board. |
| 0:06.6 | Who should they pick? We've got an answer. Today's Lockdown Maps. One more thing. Welcome, you're still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. Meet them ever covering the maps for over 10 years. It's the one more thing. Bonus episode of Lockdown Maps. You missed the episode with Isaac and I talking about all kinds of different trade things, trade targets, a potential framework for an Anthony Davis trade. |
| 0:24.1 | Go listen to that episode. Join by Isaac Harris, one more thing king himself. And Isaac, we're talking about the NBA draft today. Your favorite. You've just been consuming all kinds of draft content games, texting late at night. Like night like hey did you see this guy over here |
| 0:39.3 | from from this game like no I didn't I absolutely did the mabs right now are set at |
| 0:46.0 | ninth in the tank lottery if you want to go if you want to go that way on tankathon |
| 0:51.5 | there's they're right there they're 19 and 30 the bucks are 18 and 29. The Grizzlies are 18 and 29. So they're right above them. And then the jazz of the team above them after that. And then you have this group of Washington, Brooklyn, Indiana, and New Orleans, Sacramento. It does not feel like the Mavericks are going to catch any of those teams at all. I don't think there's any chance to catch any of those teams. So the Mabs are kind of stuck in a seven to nine range, I think, unless something crazy happens with one of these teams. If the Mavs are in that range right now, who are you picking right now? Well, you know, the good part about this, we're looking for the silver lining if they don't move up and they don't try to, you know, they don't increase their odds or they don't move up in that top four is the need for where Dallas is at right now as a franchise, having Cooper flag, kind of looking looking at the roster the need for them is a |
| 1:46.8 | some type of young dynamic creator playmaker guard type of player and that in a good way matches up |
| 1:57.7 | with this part of the lottery for this upcoming draft is you have what five |
| 2:03.6 | six guys and that once you get past the top four if you want to put Caleb Wilson at that |
| 2:08.8 | four spot I mean literally you could go five to ten through there I mean I know Kingston |
| 2:14.1 | Fleming's kind of separated himself for a lot of people in that like five spot, but they're all guards. |
| 2:20.0 | Like, I mean, I just, I saw someone in a big board the other day and it was literally just all five of the guards all the way through through there, through that spot. |
| 2:28.5 | And, you know, some people, you know, depending on what you want to do with acquaintance at Kentucky, the big, but he scares the crap out of me. I don't, I just, I don't want to have anything to do really with him. Why? Just, it's just injuries. He's coming off a torn ACL. Now he's has another injury at Kentucky and they're like not playing him a lot and knee soreness and it's like I just don't want to deal |
| 2:51.8 | with all that right now don't want to be in the business of having a Kentucky big that's injured a lot |
| 2:55.9 | no I don't yeah we're kind of familiar with that but but for Dallas yeah in that you know |
| 3:02.3 | seven to nine range I've been saying over the past week or so, depending on how far you move up in those |
| 3:09.1 | odds, we'll determine if you get to pick the guy that you want or you get the guy that's left |
| 3:15.8 | over. And even if you get the guy left over, it can still be a really good player. |
| 3:21.5 | The guys, the guards that Isaac's talking about are these. We're talking about Kingston Fleming. He's a 6-4 freshman guard for Houston. He's in that like 4-5-6 kind of range right now in a lot of mock drafts that we're seeing all over the place. You also have Mikhail Brown Jr. The 6-5 guard from Louisville. He's right there in that 7-9 range. LeBaron Phylon, 6-4 guard from Alabama. he's right there in that seven to nine range |
| 3:41.7 | LeBaron Phylon six four guard from Alabama he's a 20-year-old sophomore he's in that |
| 3:46.1 | range right there then you have like Darius Aikoff can be in that area potentially |
| 3:50.9 | and then you have I guess if you want to count the guard from Yukon Braylon Mullins |
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