Marc Stein<\/a>, the Mavericks, “at the urging of sharpshooter Klay Thompson,” met up in Newport Beach, California, earlier this month “for a well-attended bonding camp.” <\/p>\nAccording to Stein, star Anthony Davis was unable to partake in on-court activities at the camp because of his eye surgery in July, but he did host a dinner for his teammates while they were in town. <\/p>\n
The team-bonding camp comes ahead of what should be an exciting season for the Mavs. <\/p>\n
Dallas will lean primarily on veterans Thompson and Davis, but will also look to rookie and potential generational prospect Cooper Flagg to have a big first season. While a core of Thompson, Davis and Flagg will keep the Mavericks competitive, they’re hopes of competing for a title depend heavily on the health of Kyrie Irving, who is not expected to return from his torn ACL injury until at least halfway through the season. <\/p>\n
The ceiling is high for this year’s Mavericks’ squad, and it’s clear they’re locked in heading into the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks reportedly are spending the last few weeks of the offseason ensuring their team is on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-159468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}