Older Misc News

10/20 Exercised their 4th year option (26-27) for Dereck Lively.
10/18 Signed Matt Cross, Jamarion Sharp, and Zhaire Smith in the morning and released them later in the day.
10/18 Converted Moussa Cisse's contract to a two-way contract.
10/17 Released Dalano Banton, Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, and Dennis Smith.
10/15 Dante Exum, Daniel Gafford, Kyrie Irving, and Caleb Martin did not play in the LA Lakers preseason game.
10/14 Signed head coach Jason Kidd to a contract extension.
10/13 Dalano Banton, Dante Exum, Daniel Gafford, Kyrie Irving, Caleb Martin, D'Angelo Russell, and Brandon Williams did not play in the Utah preseason game.
10/11 Dalano Banton, Dante Exum, Daniel Gafford, Kyrie Irving, Caleb Martin, and Brandon Williams did not play in the Charlotte preseason game.
10/7 Signed Dalano Banton to a non-guaranteed contract and released Matthew Cleveland.
10/6 Dante Exum, Daniel Gafford, Kyrie Irving, Caleb Martin, Dennis Smith, and Brandon Williams did not play in the Oklahoma City preseason game.
9/30 Daniel Gafford suffered a sprained ankle during practice and is expected to be out 2 to 3 weeks.
9/26 Signed Dennis Smith and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl to non-guaranteed contracts.
9/24 Released D'Moi Hodge.
9/19 Signed D'Moi Hodge to a non-guaranteed contract.
9/10 Re-signed P.J. Washington to a 4 year, $90 million contract extension.
9/8 Announced the 25-26 assistant coaching staff: Frank Vogel (bench assistant), Jay Triano (bench assistant), Popeye Jones (bench assistant), Phil Handy, Mike Penberthy, Dru Anthrop, Jordan Sears, Eric Hughes, Josh Broghamer, and Keith Veney. The bench assistants sit in the front row next to head coach Jason Kidd during the games, the other assistants sit in the 2nd row or have other game time duties.
9/3 Reports are that Dallas has reached a 4 year, $90 million contract extension with P.J. Washington.
9/3 Re-signed Dante Exum to a 1 year, $3 million contract.
8/29 Released OMax Prosper.
8/14 The NBA released the 2025-26 schedule. Mavs schedule
7/30 Announced that training camp will take place in Vancouver, Canada Sept. 30 - October 4. The 4 preseason games are:
- 10/6 vs Oklahoma City at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth at 7:30pm
- 10/11 vs Charlotte at AAC at 7:30pm
- 10/13 at Utah at 8:00pm
- 10/15 vs LA Lakers at Las Vegas at 9:00pm
7/29 Named Ethan Casson as team president. He will report to CEO Rick Welts.
7/15 Dereck Lively underwent surgery on his right foot for bone spurs. He is expected to be ready for training camp.
7/13 Signed Daniel Gafford to a 3 year, $54.4 million contract extension.
7/9 Reports are that Dallas is adding former Mav player Popeye Jones as an assistant coach. Popeye has been an assistant with Denver for the past 4 seasons. The reason for all these reports of new assistants is that a lot of Dallas assistants are reportedly moving on: Sean Sweeney, Jared Dudley, and God Shammgod (plus Alex Jenson left in March to become Utah's (college) head coach, Marko Milic left after Luka Doncic was traded, and Darrell Armstrong was suspended after he was arrested assualt with a deadly weapon in February)
7/8 Signed Moussa Cisse and Matthew Cleveland to non-guaranteed contracts.
7/7 Note: neither 24-25 2-way players Kai Jones and Kessler Edwards are on the summer league roster, meaning Dallas is likely not going to re-sign them. The Mavs signed undrafted players Miles Kelly and Ryan Nembhard to 2-way contracts after the draft end.
7/8 Anthony Davis underwent surgery to repair a detached retina. He is expected to be ready for training camp.
7/7 Signed free agent D'Angelo Russell to a 2 year, $13 million contract.
7/7 Kyrie Irving opted out of the last year of his contract [$43 million for 25-26] and then Dallas re-signed him to a new 3 year, $119 million contract with the 3rd year as a player-option.
7/3 Reports are that Dallas assistant coach Jared Dudley will be joining Denver as an assistant coach. Denver is also adding former Mav player J.J. Barea as an assistant.
7/2 Signed first round draft pick (#1) Cooper Flagg to a 4 year, $62.7 million contract with the last 2 years at the team's option (first round draft pick contract).
7/2 Reports are that Frank Vogel is going to join Dallas as an assistant coach. Vogel was a coaching consultant with Dallas in 24-25.
7/2 Reports are that development assistant coach God Shammgod will join Orlando as an assistant coach. Shammgod had been with Dallas since 2016.
7/2 Reports are that free agent Dante Exum has reached a 1 year contract agreement to re-sign with Dallas.
7/2 Reports are that Dallas free agent Spencer Dinwiddie reached a 1 year contract agreement with Charlotte.

Patricia Bender
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