{"id":180265,"date":"2025-08-27T17:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180265\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:27:10","slug":"mavericks-reportedly-shopping-former-first-round-pick-to-clear-roster-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/180265\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks reportedly shopping former first-round pick to clear roster spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mavericks reportedly shopping former first-round pick to clear roster spot<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dallas Mavericks acquired the rights to former Clemson and Marquette forward Olivier-Maxence Prosper from the Sacramento Kings, who took him with the No. 24 overall pick, on the night of the 2023 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n

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Prosper has since played in 92 regular-season games, but he has yet to find a stable role in the Mavericks’ rotation. In those contests, he has averaged 10.0 minutes played, 3.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game, all while shooting 39.6% from the floor and 26.0% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

Prosper’s lack of production has made him a potential candidate to be offloaded before the 2025-26 campaign. And rumors about an outbound move from the Mavericks have only heated up as of late.<\/p>\n

Mavericks looking to complete offseason signing, and dealing Prosper expedites that process<\/p>\n

NBA insiders Mark Stein and Jake Fischer<\/a> reported on Wednesday that the Mavericks “have ramped up their efforts to create the needed roster space to complete the signing of Dante Exum” and are “focused on finding a new home via trade for Olivier-Maxence Prosper.”<\/p>\n

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Bleacher Report’s Doric Sam<\/a>\u00a0wrote that dealing Prosper won’t yield a high return for the Mavericks but would allow them to replace an option off the bench rendered obsolete with one that better fits their current roster construction.<\/p>\n

“Prosper’s role would further be diminished with the Mavs during the upcoming season following the arrival of 2025 No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg, who also plays the small forward position. Flagg is expected to play a big role immediately as a rookie, and he will see some time as Dallas’ primary ball-handler while star point guard Kyrie Irving recovers from a torn ACL,” Sam wrote.<\/p>\n

“Irving’s absence makes Exum’s return even more important, as the Mavs will need a reliable point guard to allow Flagg to grow other parts of his game while relieving him of the ball-handling duties. Exum has spent the last two years in Dallas and has proven to be a capable contributor off the bench, shooting 49.1 from three-point range in 2023-24 and 43.4 percent from beyond the arc last season.”<\/p>\n

The Mavericks re-signed Exum, who had spent the past two years with the team, on July 2. But the signing cannot be completed until a corresponding roster helps the team reach salary cap compliance, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania and Bobby Marks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Exum appeared in 20 regular-season contests for the Mavericks last season \u2014 across which he averaged a career-high 8.7 points per game \u2014 before suffering a season-ending injury (a broken bone in his left hand) on March 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks reportedly shopping former first-round pick to clear roster spot originally appeared on The Sporting News The Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":180266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2494,3139,32552,22722,11018,101840,1260,101839,3143,62,11019,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-180265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cooper-flagg","9":"tag-dallas-mavericks","10":"tag-dante-exum","11":"tag-jake-fischer","12":"tag-kyrie-irving","13":"tag-mark-stein","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-olivier-maxence-prosper","16":"tag-sacramento-kings","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-the-mavericks","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115101909159361978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}