{"id":396241,"date":"2026-08-03T07:41:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:41:13","slug":"naji-marshall-agrees-to-multiyear-contract-extension-with-mavericks-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396241\/","title":{"rendered":"Naji Marshall agrees to multiyear contract extension with Mavericks \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key member of the Mavericks&#8217; roster will be in Dallas for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Naji Marshall has agreed to a multiyear contract extension with the Mavericks, the team announced Sunday. Marshall, 28, averaged 15.2 points per game as he played a pivotal role alongside Cooper Flagg during the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall will make $9.4 million this season, which is the final year of his 3-year, $27 million deal. His new 3-year deal is worth $52.2 million and is fully guaranteed, a person familiar with the contract told The Dallas Morning News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaji has earned this opportunity through the way he approaches the game every day,\u201d Mavericks president Masai Ujiri said in a statement. \u201cHe is a competitive player who impacts winning in a variety of ways. His versatility, toughness and willingness to embrace every challenge make him an important part of what we\u2019re building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/naji-marshall-dallas-mavericks-contract-extension-22370852.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A key member of the Mavericks&#8217; roster will be in Dallas for the foreseeable future. Forward Naji Marshall&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1770,102,104,2582,103,3080,154],"class_list":["post-396241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallas-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396241","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=396241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}