{"id":350188,"date":"2026-06-25T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350188\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:15:10","slug":"watch-dallas-mavericks-introduce-first-round-pick-morez-johnson-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/350188\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Dallas Mavericks introduce first-round pick Morez Johnson Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After luring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dallas-mavericks-make-hiring-dusty-head-coach-22317450.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dusty May<\/a> away from national champion Michigan, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> kicked off their 2026 NBA draft selecting one of his former players.<\/p>\n<p>With the No. 9 overall pick in the first round Tuesday night, Dallas selected forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dusty-may-morez-johnson-mavs-nba-draft-michigan-22318231.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morez Johnson Jr. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Johnson averaged 13.1 points and 7.3 rebounds as a sophomore with Michigan after spending his freshman season at Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Now in Dallas, alongside Mavs general manager Mike Schmitz, Johnson was introduced to the local media at a noon CT news conference on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>View the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W73jw5ZCRsg\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">live stream<\/a> on below, plus some highlights from our writers and photographers on the scene:<\/p>\n<p>More Morez Johnson Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After luring Dusty May away from national champion Michigan, the Dallas Mavericks kicked off their 2026 NBA draft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,97216],"class_list":["post-350188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-nba-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350188","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=350188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}