{"id":825284,"date":"2026-08-25T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825284\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:02:16","slug":"new-kyrie-irving-trade-rumors-reveal-rivals-wonder-aloud-about-mavs-stars-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/825284\/","title":{"rendered":"New Kyrie Irving Trade Rumors Reveal Rivals ‘Wonder Aloud’ About Mavs Star’s Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the Dallas Mavericks declaring that they plan to retain star point guard Kyrie Irving during the 2026-27 season, it sounds like other teams aren’t convinced they will keep their word.<\/p>\n

According to NBA insider Marc Stein<\/a>, rival teams “continue to wonder aloud about how firmly Dallas will stick to that stance once the season begins and the next in-season trade deadline on Feb. 11 gradually approaches.”<\/p>\n

Upon his hiring in May, new Mavs president of basketball operations Masai Ujiri made it clear<\/a> that the team hoped to have Irving leading the way alongside 2025 No. 1 pick and reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n

“There’s a huge curiosity in our minds to see how Kyrie fits playing with Flagg,” Ujiri said at the time<\/a>. “He’s just that kind of incredible talent and player. And I think we owe that to this organization.”<\/p>\n

When the Mavs hired Dusty May as their new head coach the following month, May also declared<\/a> that he was looking forward to working with Irving.<\/p>\n

“Kyrie knows what it takes to win a championship, so as a first-time NBA coach, I’m gonna lean on him in a lot of areas,” May told reporters<\/a> in June.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s hard to argue that Irving is Dallas’ biggest trade asset as the team continues its rebuild. The nine-time All-Star missed the entire 2025-26 season while recovering from a torn ACL, but it can be expected that he’s looking to return in top form during the upcoming campaign.<\/p>\n

If the Mavs struggle to find success during the start of the 2026-27 season, they could become more open to the idea of trading Irving for the right offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the Dallas Mavericks declaring that they plan to retain star point guard Kyrie Irving during the 2026-27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-825284","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\/825284","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=825284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}