{"id":154081,"date":"2025-09-19T09:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154081\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:46:09","slug":"dennis-smith-jr-agrees-to-1-year-deal-to-return-to-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154081\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Smith Jr. agrees to 1-year deal to return to Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guard Dennis Smith Jr.<\/a> has agreed to a one-year deal to return to the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, agent Daniel Hazan of Hazan Sports Management told ESPN.<\/p>\n

Smith reunites with the franchise that selected him with the No. 9 pick in the 2017 NBA draft, and now he’ll compete in training camp in Dallas. The Mavericks have a full roster currently, although guard Brandon Williams<\/a> is on a partially guaranteed contract.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

Smith spent his first 1\u00bd seasons with the Mavericks, averaging a career-high 15.2 points in his first season while being named to the 2017-18 All-Rookie Team.<\/p>\n

In January 2019, he was traded to the New York Knicks<\/a> as part of the deal that sent Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> to Dallas. The highflier played for the Knicks from February 2019 to February 2021 and was moved to the Detroit Pistons<\/a> in a trade that brought Derrick Rose back to New York.<\/p>\n

Smith played for three different teams (Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>, Charlotte Hornets<\/a>, Brooklyn Nets<\/a>) in three consecutive seasons — the most recent coming in 2023-24, when he ranked second in steals per 36 minutes among NBA players to play 1,000 minutes.<\/p>\n

He spent the 2024-25 season with Real Madrid in the EuroLeague.<\/p>\n

Smith, 27, averaged 9.7 points, 4.2 assists and 3 rebounds in 326 games over seven NBA seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guard Dennis Smith Jr. has agreed to a one-year deal to return to the Dallas Mavericks, agent Daniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-154081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}