{"id":155828,"date":"2026-02-08T08:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:20:13","slug":"dirk-nowitzki-seems-ready-to-move-on-embrace-future-after-mavs-trade-of-anthony-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/155828\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirk Nowitzki seems ready to move on, embrace future after Mavs\u2019 trade of Anthony Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> took another huge step forward in moving on from the Luka Doncic trade this week by shipping out Anthony Davis and looking toward the future<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The greatest player in the history of their franchise seems to agree with their line of thinking.<\/p>\n

Dirk Nowitzki, while on the job Saturday for Prime TV in his studio analyst role<\/a>, discussed the Mavericks\u2019 trade of Davis from the perspective of a fan hoping to move forward and embrace the future of the franchise around rookie Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ll tell you one thing, I think Mavs fans are happy with this,\u201d Nowitzki said on Saturday. \u201cI think they didn\u2019t want to be reminded of what happened a year ago in the Luka trade. So to me, looking at this deal at first glance there\u2019s not a lot that came back, picks or player-wise. This is all really about financial flexibility for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mavericks have, of course, dismissed the primary architect of last season\u2019s Doncic deal, as they fired Nico Harrison in early November. Ultimately, though, it sounds like Nowitzki agrees that the time was right to pull the plug on the Davis experiment as well and instead \u201cgo young.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a little disappointed, I think when AD actually played with Cooper, they played off each other really, really well,\u201d Nowitzki admitted. \u201cBut we\u2019ll never know. What this ultimately is now is build around Cooper, go young. See what the next year brings with the draft this summer. Ultimately now, they\u2019re all in on Cooper Flagg and his future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dirk might\u2019ve even thrown a bit of a not-so-subtle dig at Harrison, as after some teasing from his co-hosts Steve Nash and Blake Griffin about the Mavericks landing Flagg on a 1.8% chance, Nowitzki replied: \u201cThat was the vision<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the clips below.<\/p>\n

Dirk Nowitzki on the Mavs trading Anthony Davis<\/p>\n

“There’s not a lot that came back with picks or player wise. I’m a little disappointed. I think (AD & Cooper) was a solid combo but we’ll never know”<\/p>\n

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