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Would the Dallas Mavericks RISK Everything by Trading Their 9th Pick for Big NBA Names?

Locked On Mavericks - Daily Podcast On The Dallas Mavs

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4.7909 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Who would you trade the Dallas Mavericks’ #9 NBA Draft pick for? Mavs fans, join the debate as the value of the ninth pick, Cooper Flagg’s future, Kyrie Irving trade possibilities, and the current direction of the NBA are all analyzed in this episode. Explore every angle as the Mavs weigh trading youth for proven stars and consider how draft strategy could shape the next era for Dallas.

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0:00.0

One more thing.

0:01.9

There are more players in the NBA that I would trade the ninth pick for than I thought.

0:07.5

Welcome.

0:08.0

You're still locked on to the Dallas Mavericks.

0:09.3

Your team every day.

0:10.6

My name is Nick Engstead and I'm joined by the One More Thinking himself, Isaac Harris.

0:14.7

We're going to talk about all the players that we would trade the number nine overall pick for in the NBA because I started to go through this list. I went through the locked on top 100 we did before the season and then I added some more players to it. And there's a lot of players that I would trade the ninth pick for because this ninth pick is a valuable pick. Like we think that there's gonna be a really good guard that drops there. I'm doing an episode with Albert Gim from No Sealing,

0:38.4

talking about Braden Burries.

0:39.4

And he's like, I'm high on Braden Burrys. I love him. The way he's talking about him, I was like, yes, let's do it. Pick him right now. I don't care who falls to the Mavericks. Take Burries. The thing I've learned about No Sealings, If you have a prospect that you love, the odds that one of their army

0:55.4

loves that player is really high and you can find the best like hype up of that prospect

1:01.7

because they, I don't think anybody tops them on hyping up prospects. No, no. And, uh, and, but they can

1:08.5

tell you all the great stuff about them about about like you can you can just set

1:12.4

them off all right tell me about tell me about you know uh like zuby at joe afford they're like all right

1:17.1

here's what he is he's blah blah and you're like i'm down let's pick him number nine you're like

1:21.0

all in on them but i think this draft is i think this draft is special in a way where i think

1:26.2

there it is deep with guys from like

1:28.2

one to 10, they're going to be really good in the league and have really high upside and have

1:33.1

the ability to do a bunch of different things that the modern NBA requires you to do. And so

1:38.7

that pick is valuable. But I think the guarantee of getting a player is maybe even more valuable to a,

1:46.0

you know, a bigger case. And so this was your idea. How do you want to go through all of these?

1:51.3

Because I was like, we could just start name and name. We could just start name and names.

1:55.8

Or we go through all the ones we wouldn't want to do. Did you have any parameters that you put on it that you're like,

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