DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks aren’t raising season ticket prices ahead of next season.

On Thursday, Mavericks CEO Rick Welts joined the team’s broadcast in the second quarter of Dallas’ 130-121 loss to the Sacramento Kings and said team governor Patrick Dumont chose to keep ticket prices flat because he understands Dallas didn’t meet expectations this year.

“It was one of the strangest meetings I’ve been in in my 48 years in the league, where you sit down with the owner,” Welts said. “The staff has done two months of work to figure out where tickets might be underpriced.

“Patrick preempted the conversation before it got started and said, ‘Look, we didn’t deliver this year. We didn’t deliver on the team as expected. We’re not going to raise one ticket price this year.’ A popular decision. The right one as well.”

The Mavericks hoped they could make a deep playoff run with Anthony Davis as a focal point, but Davis’ injury issues and bloated contract forced Dallas decision makers to decide whether this team was built to win now.

Earlier this month, the Mavericks traded Davis to the Washington Wizards for salary relief, two late first-round draft picks and three second-round picks. The Mavericks are 2-6 since the trade, and at 21-37, are in 12th place in the Western Conference.

Welts said that the Mavericks’ focus is to continue building around Cooper Flagg. The No. 1 pick in last June’s draft, Flagg is averaging 20.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 4.1 assists in his rookie season.

“I feel like we turned the page in what’s been a really difficult chapter in Mavericks history,” Welts said. “And we have a plan. We have a generational player we are going to build around and create that kind of championship-caliber (team).”

In November, Dumont fired general manager Nico Harrison, who was the driving force behind the Mavericks’ decision to trade former face of the franchise Luka Dončić for Davis. Dončić is averaging 32.7 points per game this season, the highest scoring average in the NBA, for the sixth-place Los Angeles Lakers (34-24). Davis appeared in 20 games this season with the Mavericks before being dealt and remains out with a left hand injury.

Last year, the Mavericks notified season ticket holders that rates were increasing weeks after making the controversial Dončić-for-Davis trade. Tickets on the floor and terrace levels saw the steepest hikes, increasing by as much as 20 percent.