{"id":460761,"date":"2026-02-05T20:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460761\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:16:11","slug":"sources-mavericks-acquire-tyus-jones-in-trade-with-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460761\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Mavericks acquire Tyus Jones in trade with Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tim MacMahonFeb 6, 2026, 07:05 AM<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM<\/p>\n

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The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> acquired veteran point guard Tyus Jones<\/a> from the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> in exchange for Malaki Branham<\/a>, sources told ESPN on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Branham was part of the Mavs’ return from the Washington Wizards<\/a> in the eight-player Anthony Davis<\/a> trade agreed to Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It’s also the second time that Jones has been traded this week. The Orlando Magic<\/a> sent him to the Hornets<\/a> along with two second-round picks in a cost-cutting deal Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Jones, 29, has career averages of 7.4 points and 4.3 assists in 730 games, including 226 starts. He signed a one-year, $7 million deal with the Magic last offseason but did not get as much playing time as anticipated, averaging only 3.0 points and 2.4 assists in 15.7 minutes per game.<\/p>\n

By dealing Jones, the Hornets opened up a $7 million trade exception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim MacMahonFeb 6, 2026, 07:05 AM CloseJoined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas MavericksAppears regularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-460761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460761","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=460761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}