{"id":819945,"date":"2026-07-23T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819945\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:45:09","slug":"dallas-mavericks-re-sign-center-moussa-cisse-following-reports-of-an-offer-sheet-from-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/819945\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks re-sign center Moussa Cisse following reports of an offer sheet from New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DALLAS (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/dallas-mavericks\/6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/dallas-mavericks\/6\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> have re-signed restricted free agent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/moussa-cisse-1044390\/1231606\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/moussa-cisse-1044390\/1231606\" target=\"_blank\">Moussa Cisse<\/a> in the wake of multiple reports that the second-year center had signed an offer sheet with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-york-knicks\/18\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/new-york-knicks\/18\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team didn\u2019t disclose the terms in the deal announced Wednesday. According to multiple reports, the Mavericks matched the Knicks\u2019 offer on a $4.7 million, two-year contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cisse went undrafted out of Memphis last year and spent the season with the Mavericks on a two-way contract. The 6-foot-11 Cisse gives Dallas depth at center behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/dereck-lively-ii-988937\/1401780\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/dereck-lively-ii-988937\/1401780\" target=\"_blank\">Dereck Lively II<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/daniel-gafford\/1061647\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/daniel-gafford\/1061647\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Gafford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cisse tied Roy Tarpley\u2019s Dallas rookie record of 20 rebounds in the 2025-26 season finale against Chicago. He averaged 4.5 points, 5.7 rebounds, 1.2 blocks and 13.9 minutes in 38 games with one start. Cisse was third among rookies in blocks per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (AP) \u2014 The Dallas Mavericks have re-signed restricted free agent Moussa Cisse in the wake of multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-819945","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\/819945","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=819945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}