In the wake of Anthony Davis opting to let his injured wrist heal on its own rather than undergo surgery, the next step for the 10-time All-Star will be seeing if he remains on the Dallas Mavericks after the Feb. 5 trade deadline. <\/p>\n
On the latest episode of The Hoop Collective Podcast<\/a> (starts at 19:05 mark), ESPN’s Tim MacMahon said it is “very clear” that Rich Paul, Davis’ agent, wants his client to be traded within the next three weeks. <\/p>\n Per MacMahon, Paul “believes it’s in his best business interest” for Davis to get moved because he views the Mavs’ wait-and-see approach on an extension as a “no” and there are other teams where it would be considered “likely” they would give the veteran forward a new deal. <\/p>\n However, MacMahon spoke to a member of the Mavericks’ organization who said they won’t let Paul “bully us” into a trade.<\/p>\n This doesn’t necessarily mean a trade will happen because MacMahon said earlier in the episode (starts at 16:45 mark) that Dallas could wait things out in an attempt to see what the roster looks like with Davis, Kyrie Irving and Cooper Flagg all playing together. <\/p>\n Davis has missed the last two games due to a wrist injury suffered in the fourth quarter of Dallas’ 116-114 loss to the Utah Jazz on Jan. 8. <\/p>\n The Mavericks announced<\/a> on Tuesday that Davis won’t need surgery and is expected to heal in approximately six weeks. <\/p>\n Following the news that Davis wouldn’t require surgery, which would have put his status for the remainder of the season in doubt, ESPN’s Shams Charania<\/a> reported the Mavs had renewed trade talks involving the 32-year-old and there are “multiple” teams interested. <\/p>\n Davis’ future in Dallas has been a major talking point all season. With the club currently sitting 12th in the West with a 15-25 record, exploring his market seems like a logical path for the organization. <\/p>\n Determining Davis’ value right now could be difficult. He remains an impactful two-way player when he’s on the floor, but he has only played 29 games since Jan. 30, 2025. <\/p>\n The Athletic’s Christian Clark and Sam Amick<\/a> reported on Jan. 7 that Davis is seeking a “massive” extension this summer. He is owed<\/a> $58.5 million in 2026-27 and has a $62.8 million player option for 2027-28 on his current contract. <\/p>\n Given Davis’ age and injury history even before this recent run of bad luck\u2014he has only played more than 60 games in a season once since the 2020-21 campaign\u2014 the number of teams willing to give him the type of deal he is seeking might be very few, but it only takes one to say yes. <\/p>\n Davis is averaging 20.4 points, 11.1 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game in 20 starts this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the wake of Anthony Davis opting to let his injured wrist heal on its own rather than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-412713","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\/412713","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=412713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}