{"id":343827,"date":"2025-12-12T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343827\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:59:09","slug":"will-anthony-davis-be-traded-latest-nba-rumors-on-mavs-plans-amid-bulls-pistons-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343827\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Anthony Davis Be Traded? Latest NBA Rumors on Mavs Plans amid Bulls, Pistons Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks reportedly aren’t certain to trade star big man Anthony Davis before the Feb. 5 NBA trade deadline despite persistent rumors and speculation.<\/p>\n

According to NBA insider Marc Stein<\/a>, sources have said “it is by no means automatic” that the Mavs will move AD. Stein added that the Mavericks won’t trade Davis “for the sake of it,” and require a strong offer in order to consider parting ways with him.<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Tim Bontemps<\/a> added that sources told him there is “skepticism in a robust market” developing for Davis. Based on Stein’s report, that could lead to the Mavs keeping Davis in the fold until at least the offseason.<\/p>\n

Shams Charania<\/a> of ESPN previously reported that several teams were expected to pursue a trade for Davis, including the Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks and Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Bulls have also been mentioned as a potential landing spot since Davis is from Chicago, but Stein (h\/t Heavy.com’s Joey Haverford<\/a>) reported there is “no evidence” of the Bulls having interest in an AD trade.<\/p>\n

Davis, 32, has built a Hall of Fame r\u00e9sum\u00e9 over his 14-year NBA career with 10 All-Star nods, five All-NBA selections and one NBA championship to his credit.<\/p>\n

He also boasts career averages of 24.1 points, 10.7 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 2.3 blocks and 1.3 steals per game, but injuries have always been his biggest nemesis.<\/p>\n

Davis has played in 60 or more games only twice in the past eight seasons, and he has been limited to only 10 games this season due to a calf strain.<\/p>\n

He also missed time last season with an adductor strain after the Mavs acquired him in the blockbuster trade that sent Luka Don\u010di\u0107 to the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

Davis is signed through the 2026-27 season with a player option for 2027-28. Stein reported that Davis’ agent, Rich Paul, will seek a contract extension this offseason, which could further complicate a potential trade.<\/p>\n

If the season ended today, the Mavs would own the No. 10 seed in the Western Conference and the final spot in the postseason play-in tournament.<\/p>\n

Dallas isn’t a threat to go on a deep playoff run now, but that could change if and when guard Kyrie Irving returns from a torn ACL last season. Perhaps that could compel the Mavs to keep Davis in order to see what the trio of Davis, Irving and rookie No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg can do together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks reportedly aren’t certain to trade star big man Anthony Davis before the Feb. 5 NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-343827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343827","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=343827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}