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Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

INSIDE: What Dusty May Said About Kyrie Irving, Cooper Flagg, & Morez Johnson Jr.

Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

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4.7919 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Dusty May's introductory press conference signals a brand new era for the Dallas Mavericks, with Masai Ujiri and the Mavs front office promising to bring winning and joy back to NBA basketball in Dallas. From Cooper Flagg's generational potential to Kyrie Irving's relationship with the new coaching staff, this episode breaks down everything you need to know about the new Mavericks regime.

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0:00.0

One more thing. Dusty May's introductory press conference with Masayi Jerry told me one thing that he's the exact right coach to the Dallas Mavericks need.

0:08.8

Welcome here, still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks, your team every day. My name is Dick Engstead.

0:13.2

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0:19.5

And today we're going to hear from Dusty May,

0:21.0

a couple different clips and things about his approach to the Dallas Mavericks job.

0:26.7

Why they checked all the boxes for him,

0:28.8

why he made the jump from college to the NBA.

0:32.7

A very important clip about Kyrie and how he's going to approach this job,

0:36.0

which I think is one of the most important things we heard from him. And then he also answered some questions, one of one from me about Moro's Johnson and then gave a really great story about Morris Johnson. We'll talk about it and hear from a little bit later. But let's start here. The beginning of the press conference started with Masai Jiri giving his opening remarks and basically just giving the the whole like, hey, is, this is who we brought in. This is, this is, this is, this is how we're going to move forward. You know, he said, I would like to introduce an incredible person, which is something that he's been very specific about. And he wanted to build a culture, wanting to, wanting to build a group of people here that all want to win,

1:11.5

all have the same mentality. We want to win in Dallas, right? The intro to the whole show

1:16.4

that we use here. And I thought the way that he ended his opening remarks was, again, very specific,

1:23.3

like Messiah usually is, very pointed, and he used his words very carefully. Tell me if you

1:28.9

can hear the one specific four-letter word he used in this that makes me think, man, this is a

1:35.3

different approach than what we've heard in the past. Everybody wants to bring something special

1:39.4

here. We're all on the same page here to win.

1:45.0

So a big thank you to the organization.

1:48.0

I see Rick Aethon, Mike Schmidt here.

1:53.0

I and we want to bring winning to this organization and to this city.

2:00.0

We want to bring joy, we want to bring joy back to basketball here.

2:06.6

It is a goal and I know what are going to do it.

2:10.6

And I know the beginning of this joy and this goal starts here

2:15.6

with this guy that we welcome as our basketball coach, Dusty May.

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