{"id":820409,"date":"2026-08-20T23:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820409\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T23:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:54:10","slug":"dallas-mavericks-fans-are-split-on-pj-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820409\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks fans are split on PJ Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Over the weekend, Dallas Mavericks forward PJ Washington spoke with Kevin Gray of DLLS Sports and t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mavsmoneyball.com\/mavericks-rumors\/61639\/p-j-washington-dismisses-trade-rumors-confident-hell-be-a-maverick-opening-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">old him that he was very confident<\/a> he\u2019d be with the team for the start of the 2026-27 regular season. This led me to posting our weekly question about the Mavericks, but I made the question a bit more long term: do you think Washington will be a Dallas Maverick the entire season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The voting ended up being fairly close, with a slight majority assuming Washington will get traded elsewhere before the NBA trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This season Washington starts the first year of a four year extension he signed with the Mavericks last offseason, totalling just under $89 million dollars. This year\u2019s portion comes in at just under $20 million. Washington is in the middle of his athletic prime at 28 and is an ideal forward in a league where many teams are starved at the position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Though his three-point shooting and turnovers suffered during a down year last season, Washington\u2019s proven capable of being a high-level contributor so long as he doesn\u2019t have to be the primary offensive engine. He\u2019s the most attractive trade piece the Dallas Mavericks might reasonably part with and he\u2019s worth a future first-round pick from any team looking to close the gap towards being a contender.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">All of this is to say, I think 58% is low. The issue currently facing the Mavericks is a lack of tradable first-round picks on the NBA trade market. Dallas likely covets a pick in the 2028 draft, one that should be filled with high level talent and one where they own the Oklahoma City Thunder\u2019s first-round pick swap depending on where the teams end that regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dallas is currently not projected to be very good, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/navigation\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with bettors placing their over-under at 32.5 wins<\/a>. If Dallas somehow is that bad (which I doubt), then they absolutely should look to move Washington as soon as possible and pray a first-rounder is even available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But since the season hasn\u2019t begun and it feels as if all NBA transactions are through, there won\u2019t be much pressure to move Washington for less than the franchise thinks he\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the weekend, Dallas Mavericks forward PJ Washington spoke with Kevin Gray of DLLS Sports and told him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[41714,355,99],"class_list":["post-820409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-mavericks-roster","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820409","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=820409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}