{"id":458642,"date":"2026-02-07T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458642\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:16:08","slug":"mavericks-predicted-to-cut-ties-with-former-top-5-pick-after-anthony-davis-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/458642\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks predicted to cut ties with former top-5 pick after Anthony Davis trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> upgraded the No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft to the No. 2 pick from that draft.<\/p>\n

Upgrade, right?<\/p>\n

Well, no. Luka Doncic was the third pick. Marvin Bagley was the second pick.<\/p>\n

Doncic got sent away for Anthony Davis a year ago. And now, in the AD trade to the Wizards<\/a>, one of the guys coming back was Bagley.<\/p>\n

Bagley may not stay around for long, though.<\/p>\n

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The Athletic’s John Hollinger<\/a> listed Bagley sixth in his “buyout tiers” after the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean Hollinger thinks Bagley is sixth-most likely to be bought out. Rather, Hollinger ranks him the sixth-best player with a chance to get bought out.<\/p>\n

“Dallas no longer has the third pick from the\u00a02018 draft, but look on the bright side: It has the second pick from the same draft,” Hollinger writes. “That\u2019s better, right? Bagley was pretty effective in Washington, but Dallas has a lot of frontcourt bodies and shouldn\u2019t really be trying to win the rest of the way.”<\/p>\n

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That last sentence is the key part. The only incentives remaining for this season for the Mavs are to allow Cooper Flagg to shine, and to get a good draft position.<\/p>\n

Bagley might be just a bit too good to play solid minutes the rest of the way.<\/p>\n

If he’s waived, another team will surely snag him. Bagley has never lived up to the hype, but he’s good enough to help a contender down the stretch.<\/p>\n

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