For the 2025-26 season, the Dallas Mavericks are eager to return to being a top playoff team after the disastrous 2024-25 season in which Dallas missed the playoffs altogether after making the 2024 NBA Finals in the season prior.
This preseason, all eyes have been on first overall pick Cooper Flagg, and he has delivered for the Mavericks. Flagg recorded 10 points in under 15 minutes in his preseason debut against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Not many people are thinking about the trade deadline right now, as it is still months away, but a new projected trade from Bleacher Report involving the Mavericks was created if the deadline was before the season opener, and it's one the Mavericks could find too good to pass up.