{"id":700928,"date":"2026-06-13T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700928\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:00:09","slug":"mavericks-open-to-trading-no-9-pick-in-nba-draft-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/700928\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks open to trading No. 9 pick in NBA draft, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything appears to be on the table for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mavericks&#8217;<\/a> front office when it comes to building around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/cooper-flagg\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper\u00a0Flagg<\/a>, including a deal involving their No. 9 pick in the NBA draft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/the-nbas-latest-trade-chatter?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=392205&amp;post_id=201609513&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=39f60&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Fischer of The Stein Line<\/a> is reporting Dallas has\u00a0told teams it is open to moving up or down the draft order from the No. 9 slot. After Fisher explained the Sacramento Kings and Atlanta Hawks, who pick at No. 7 and No. 8, are comfortable with their draft positions, he wrote that the Mavericks are not a certainty to stay put.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sources say that the Mavericks have told rival teams that they are very much open for trades in either direction with their No. 9 pick,&#8221; Fischer said.<\/p>\n<p>New team president Masai Ujiri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/dallas-mavericks-draft-pick-9-prospects-ujiri-22250770.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has expressed confidence in the ninth overall selection<\/a>, but he has a history of making aggressive moves with draft picks to try and improve. While with the Toronto Raptors, he traded a 2019 first-round pick as part of a deal to acquire\u00a0Kawhi Leonard from the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A move up the draft would likely be in pursuit of a player the Mavericks covet, while a move back could mean additional picks in 2026, or that a proven NBA player is headed to Dallas. The Dallas Morning News&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/mavericks\/article\/nba-mock-draft-mikel-brown-brayden-burries-pick-9-22276698.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest mock draft<\/a> has the team selecting guard Mikel Brown Jr. out of Louisville with the No. 9 pick, but that could change if the Mavs find a way to alter their draft position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything appears to be on the table for the\u00a0Mavericks&#8217; front office when it comes to building around Cooper\u00a0Flagg,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99,282387],"class_list":["post-700928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-tp-dallas-mavericks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700928","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=700928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}