{"id":482454,"date":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T06:48:08","slug":"dallas-mavericks-predicted-to-replace-anthony-davis-with-impressive-six-foot-11-shooter-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482454\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks predicted to replace Anthony Davis with impressive six-foot-11 shooter from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frontcourt help could be on the radar for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> in the 2026 NBA Draft after trading Anthony Davis. With Cooper Flagg playing as well as he has throughout his rookie season, adding young talent around him should be a priority.<\/p>\n<p>In Ricky O&#8217;Donnell\u2019s latest mock for SB Nation, Dallas was projected to select Hannes Steinbach with the No. 9 overall pick, a move centered on adding size and an elite rebounder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteinbach is an elite rebounder with a specialty on the offensive glass, he\u2019s an efficient scorer, and he catches everything thrown at him,\u201d O\u2019Donnell <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/1103368\/nba-mock-draft-2026-lottery-sim-bulls-bucks-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like Steinbach has a wide range, but the added increase on hitting the offensive glass around the league should ultimately benefit him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Any young player with talent would be a good addition for the Mavericks, but having him with Flagg could truly form an above-average duo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe would be a nice lob target for Cooper Flagg as the rookie star continues to improve his pick-and-roll playmaking, and he\u2019d also help get Flagg extra possessions with tip-outs and putbacks on the glass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just like most young bigs\/forwards, there are questions about parts of his game, but he checks off a lot of boxes. The Washington forward is shooting an impressive 35.9% from 3-point range but is only attempting 1.7 per game.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Frontcourt help could be on the radar for the Dallas Mavericks in the 2026 NBA Draft after trading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-482454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}