{"id":145832,"date":"2026-02-06T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145832\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T08:02:39","slug":"dallas-mavericks-acquire-veteran-guard-tyus-jones-in-trade-with-charlotte-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145832\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks acquire veteran guard Tyus Jones in trade with Charlotte Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> have made another move ahead of Wednesday\u2019s NBA trade deadline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">A person familiar with the decision <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2019496480067752434?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeACurtis2\/status\/2019496480067752434?s=20\">confirmed to The Dallas Morning News<\/a> that the Mavs have traded recently acquired Malaki Branham to the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Tyus Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Branham was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/02\/04\/dallas-mavericks-anthony-davis-trade-what-we-know-new-players-draft-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/2026\/02\/04\/dallas-mavericks-anthony-davis-trade-what-we-know-new-players-draft-picks\/\">part of the package Dallas landed Tuesday<\/a> in the massive trade involving Anthony Davis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Jones, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/tyus-jones-trade-hornets-magic-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/tyus-jones-trade-hornets-magic-2026\">also traded Tuesday<\/a> from Orlando to Charlotte, is a former first-round draft pick out of Duke. The veteran guard has played for six teams over his 11 seasons in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Mavericks<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Be the smartest Mavericks fan. Get the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">With Orlando this season, Jones has primarily come off the bench. He is averaging 3.0 points, 2.4 assists and 1.0 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Hornets reportedly acquired Jones and a pair of second-round picks from the Magic for cash considerations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\">Find more Mavericks coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks have made another move ahead of Wednesday\u2019s NBA trade deadline. A person familiar with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15312,26584,5828,70608,139,141,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-145832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-anthony-davis","9":"tag-brief","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-mavericks","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}