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Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

Why the Anthony Davis Trade was the KEY for the Dallas Mavericks' Offseason

Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

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🗓️ 23 July 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Every Dallas Mavericks move this offseason traces back to one deal: the Anthony Davis trade. See how the ripple effects reshaped the Mavs' roster, cap sheet, and long-term plans around Cooper Flagg, Kyrie Irving, and the rest of the NBA landscape.

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0:00.0

One More Thing. Every move the Dallas Mavericks made this summer was because of that Anthony Davis trade.

0:06.5

Welcome. We're still locked down to the Dallas Mavericks. Your team every day. My name is Nick Engstead. It's the One More Thing. I'm joined by the One More Thing King himself, Isaac Harris.

0:13.0

And we're going to talk about the ripple effects of the Anthony Davis trade because we're still seeing the effects of it on the Dallas Mavericks. It did not net the Mavericks a big

0:21.2

Paul when it first happened. Chris Middleton, Marvin Bagley, AJ Johnson, Blake Wesley,

0:28.2

first round pick, fake first round pick. And basically, basically it. But flexibility was huge for it.

0:35.5

And so we'll talk about everything that the Mavs were able to get because of it. And I'm going to start with literally every move the Mavs made this summers because of the Anthony Davis trade, Isaac. So shout out to, shout out to Ricardine Finley for getting that done.

0:49.1

Yeah. Making the right deal. And it starts with it. Well, I just, i just want before you list off the deals i just

0:56.3

want to shout out those two guys again for making that deal because they obviously didn't know

1:01.7

what the future was going to entail for them right and going into that deadline you know obviously

1:06.6

we were talking almost every day about the trade rumors and everything and i i feel like we were

1:11.6

pretty adamant on this show that anthony davis is going to get traded um i had felt pretty

1:16.9

confident of things i had heard about that then and that that's the route that they were trying to go

1:21.7

and it was this matter of like are you going to try to get some players back that could possibly like

1:27.3

fit in the future like

1:28.7

that are not super exciting but are you or are you going to go the flexibility route and that was

1:34.4

clearly the route that you know ricardi and finley wanted to go with it of saying like kind of like

1:39.9

let's wipe our hands clean and now like you'll talk about some things they got in that deal and how they've

1:45.6

taken advantage of that or the new regime has.

1:47.6

But them making that decision then was of, hey, let's, let's set up the future of Dallas,

1:55.7

like this next regime, like they were hoping it was them.

1:59.5

It was, is a pivotal, so important move that I think over

2:04.7

time will get probably kind of buried a little bit unfortunately but I think this is going to be

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