{"id":810955,"date":"2026-07-19T21:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810955\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:49:11","slug":"mavericks-acquire-zaccharie-risacher-from-hawks-in-three-team-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/810955\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks acquire Zaccharie Risacher from Hawks in three-team trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/?logged_in=true\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Mavericks<\/a> have acquired another former No. 1 pick.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas is acquiring forward Zaccharie Risacher, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024\u00a0NBA draft, from the Atlanta Hawks as part of a three-team deal that sends guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2025\/07\/11\/who-is-ryan-nembhard-five-things-to-know-about-mavericks-two-way-guard-out-of-gonzaga\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Ryan Nembhard<\/a> to Atlanta. The move sends Oklahoma City Thunder wing Luguentz Dort to Atlanta in exchange for three second-round picks. ESPN was the first to report the move.<\/p>\n<p>One of the second-round picks going to Oklahoma City is a 2027 pick from Dallas (via Chicago).<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks will likely use their $20.8 million exception from the Davis trade to absorb Risacher&#8217;s $13.8 million salary for next season.<\/p>\n<p>Over the first two seasons of his career, Risacher averaged 11.1 points on 36% shooting from three. He\u00a0finished second in 2024 Rookie of the Year voting behind Spurs guard Stephon Castle.<\/p>\n<p>After starting 73 games in his rookie season, Risacher started 46 last year and lost his starting job to veteran guard\u00a0CJ McCollum late in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas also gains roster flexibility since the final two years of\u00a0Risacher&#8217;s contract for 2026-27 and 2027-28 are team options.<\/p>\n<p>Nembhard joined the Mavericks as a two-way player last year before getting promoted to a standard contract during the season. He averaged 6.6 points and 5.3 assists in 60 games last season and totaled 23 assists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/cooper-flagg-injury-rookie-season-chicago-bulls-22202450.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">the season-ending win over the Bulls<\/a>. Dallas exercised his team option for this season shortly before the start of free agency, allowing Nembhard to suit up for the team&#8217;s summer league squad in Las Vegas. He appeared in just two games, averaging 13.5 points and 8.0 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Risacher joins a crowded group of frontcourt players that also includes Flagg, P.J. Washington Jr., Naji Marshall, Morez Johnson Jr., Caleb Martin, Aldama and Biberovic.<\/p>\n<p>NBA rosters are limited to 15 standard contracts during the regular season.\u00a0The Mavericks have 16 players on standard contracts and must waive or trade someone before opening night.<\/p>\n<p>The SportsDay staff contributed to this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Mavericks have acquired another former No. 1 pick. Dallas is acquiring forward Zaccharie Risacher, the No. 1 overall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[4225,64,63,590,85,287648],"class_list":["post-810955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-tp-dallas-mavericks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810955","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=810955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}