{"id":285098,"date":"2026-05-08T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285098\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T23:24:15","slug":"arizona-alum-mike-schmitz-named-gm-of-dallas-mavericks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/285098\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona alum Mike Schmitz named GM of Dallas Mavericks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks<\/a> are turning to an Arizona alum to take over their franchise.<\/p>\n

The Mavericks on Friday announced the hiring of Mike Schmitz as general manager ahead of next month\u2019s NBA Draft. Schmitz spent the last four seasons on the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> staff after serving as a draft analyst for ESPN.<\/p>\n

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Schmitz attended the University of Arizona from 2009-12, where he covered UA athletics for the Daily Wildcat. Schmitz\u2019s Arizona basketball beat helped showcase his eye for identifying talent, according to a 2018 profile<\/a> in the Daily Wildcat.<\/p>\n

Schmitz worked for Yahoo Sports and Draft Express before joining ESPN. He worked for the Worldwide Leader for five years, then transitioned to a front office role in Portland. He most recently served as the Trail Blazers\u2019 assistant GM.<\/p>\n

\u201cMike is one of the most respected evaluators and basketball minds in the NBA,\u201d said Dallas president Masai Ujiri. \u201cHe brings intelligence, discipline, humility and a relentless work ethic to everything he does.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Schmitz takes over a Mavericks franchise that a year ago won the NBA Draft Lottery, earning the rights to the No. 1 pick, which they used on Duke standout Cooper Flagg<\/a>. Dallas went 26-56 this season and holds a 29% chance at receiving a top-four pick in this Sunday\u2019s Draft Lottery.<\/p>\n

Dallas is more likely to receive a mid-lottery pick, and some mock drafts have linked the Mavericks to Arizona guard Brayden Burries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks are turning to an Arizona alum to take over their franchise. The Mavericks on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[104780,4642,102,104,2582,103,21087,104779,26669,76963,6391,15637],"class_list":["post-285098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-2020-nba-draft","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-getty-images","tag-mike-schmitz","tag-nba-draft","tag-nbae","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-the-mavericks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}