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Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

Khris Middleton FORCES Mavs to Make a Big Decision by March 1st or the Offseason

Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The Dallas Mavericks face a critical decision with Khris Middleton as they balance their NBA lottery odds and future roster moves. How will the Mavs approach their tank strategy, build around Cooper Flagg, and manage their bigs rotation alongside Kyrie Irving for next season?

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0:00.0

One more thing. The Dallas Mavericks have a conundrum to solve with this Chris Middleton situation. So they gave some suggestions or in the next couple months. Welcome. You're still locked on in Dallas Mavericks. Your team. My name is an evening. I've heard of a member cover for the 10 years. Today's episode is brought to you by annual user drop the boost on NBA futures. Well, it's a one more chance to win a trip to the NBA. finals play your game with band injury.

0:22.8

Some fun superlative thing.

0:24.4

Today's episode. dropping by slightly biased. Well, it's a one more for your chance to win and tripped to the NBA.

0:21.8

In an episode earlier today talking about

0:22.2

with a big sports betting

0:23.4

part of the NBA.

0:24.5

Today's episode I want to talk about today's episode is brought to by five hour energy. Have your cake and drink his birthday cake flavor is back. And I think going in a next year has kind of vanilla cakey flavor. Interesting situation. but let's start here talking about Chris Milton

0:35.7

because he's just had two really good games

0:38.3

back to the average.

0:39.4

So the NBA is suggesting a bunch of different fixes. but let's start here. It's part of my Christmas now at 5-hour energy. He's just had two really good games.

0:38.5

So the NBA feels like he's finally getting a bunch of different fixes.

0:41.7

These proposed fixes for this MAA team.

0:43.8

It fits really well.

0:44.5

We got a lot of thoughts about them.

0:45.5

Let's get into it right now.

0:46.5

And he elevates them in different ways that I didn't think that he would at this point in his career.

0:51.2

He was not playing a lot for the Wizards. And when he was,

0:55.2

he had some good games, some not good games. Like, all right, what are we going to get with Chris

0:58.4

Middleton? And here's the thing with Chris Middleton. He's 34 years old, going to be 35 in August.

1:05.8

He just was the oldest Mavericks player since Dirk Novitsky in 2015 to record a game with 25 points, five rebounds, and five assists. He's making $33 million this year. It's the end of this deal he got with the Bucks where he was an all-star and they were like, all right, we're going to pay you to be the second guy next to Janus, then they moved on from him, and now it's the last year of that deal. He's going to be an unrestricted free agent this summer.

1:29.2

And so that's a thing. If the Dallas Mavericks do nothing over this next week, they have to make that decision. So we'll talk about that one in a second. The decision they need to make in the next week and the one that I'm back and forth about, and I can't decide what I want the Mavericks to do here. The buyout deadline is March 1st.

1:45.3

So the Mavericks could buy out Chris Middleton and then he can go join a playoff team, go help a playoff contender, go play on one of those teams. He could go do that. And the maps have three games between then and between now and March 1st. The Brooklyn Nets game, if that one gets

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