{"id":311914,"date":"2025-10-17T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311914\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:13:10","slug":"dallas-mavericks-waive-guard-dennis-smith-jr-amid-roster-moves-and-injury-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311914\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks waive guard Dennis Smith Jr. amid roster moves and injury updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a>\u2019 head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/person\/bcbf8051-a089-c59d-afe0-155b15158099\/jason-kidd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/person\/bcbf8051-a089-c59d-afe0-155b15158099\/jason-kidd\/\">coach Jason Kidd<\/a> said that Brandon Williams and Caleb Martin practiced on Friday, while center Daniel Gafford did individual work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Williams, recovering from a hamstring strain, played only two preseason minutes, while Martin and Gafford didn\u2019t play at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Later Friday, the Mavericks reduced their training camp roster from 22 by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MavsPR\/status\/1979276437325779049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MavsPR\/status\/1979276437325779049\">waiving guard\/forward Dalano Banton, forward Jeremiah Robinson-Earl and guard Dennis Smith Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Dallas Mavericks announced today they have waived guard\/forward Dalano Banton, forward Jeremiah Robinson-Earl and guard Dennis Smith Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mavs PR (@MavsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MavsPR\/status\/1979276437325779049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mavericks<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Mavericks fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Smith was selected by the Mavericks out of North Carolina State with the 9th overall pick in the 2017 NBA draft. He earned All-Rookie honors in 2017-2018, but played just a season and a half with the Mavs before he was dealt to the Knicks as part of the midseason trade that brought Kristaps Porzingis to Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Mavericks own the G-League rights of Banton and Robinson-Earl, and are working to secure the G-League rights to fan-favorite Smith, whom the franchise selected with the No. 9 pick of the 2017 draft.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__DAHnF list-disc\"><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/retail\/2025\/10\/17\/tom-brady-backed-card-shop-to-open-near-american-airlines-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Brady-backed card shop to open near American Airlines Center <\/a><a class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-subject-tag-list-only-list-only-module__BZO7y link-blue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/10\/17\/dallas-mavericks-nba-cooper-flagg-mavs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mavs have no issue with Cooper Flagg running the show despite being youngest player in NBA<\/a><\/ul>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Find more Mavericks coverage from <\/b><b>The Dallas Morning News<\/b><b> here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks\u2019 head coach Jason Kidd said that Brandon Williams and Caleb Martin practiced on Friday, while center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":311915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,10768,1596,3139,6650,62,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-311914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brief","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-mavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115392046887500815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311914","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=311914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}