{"id":479,"date":"2015-07-12T01:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T05:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2019-06-26T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:52:38","slug":"a-summary-of-the-dallas-mavericks-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sullyonsports.com\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"A Summary of the Dallas Mavericks’ Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Mavericks were one of the teams that had very high hopes going into this year’s free agency. \u00a0They had chances at getting stars like LaMarcus Aldridge, \"\"DeAndre Jordan, and others. \u00a0They lost out on Aldridge when he signed with the Spurs on July 4<\/a>, but they cushioned the blow with the signing of DeAndre Jordan the day before. \u00a0However, Jordan began having second thoughts soon after, and on July 8, the day before players could start signing contracts, the race was on to sign him:<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Chandler Parsons (@ChandlerParsons) July 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2014 JJ Redick (@JJRedick) July 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2708\ufe0f🚁🚙 \u2014 Blake Griffin (@blakegriffin32) July 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

🍌🚤 \u2014 Chris Paul (@CP3) July 8, 201<\/a>5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

pic.twitter.com\/SIyHJjDScR<\/a> \u2014 Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) July 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

🏊 \u2014 Mike Woodson (@MikeWoodsonNBA) July 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2600\ufe0f\u270c\ufe0f\u2014 Tyson Chandler (@tysonchandler) July 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah ok .. I see .. 🔓🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🔒💤#mambaout<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/sdx5kpqWwY<\/a> \u2014 Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) July 8, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jordan eventually re-signed with the Clippers after they stayed at his Houston home until midnight that evening, not letting anyone get in, per Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski:<\/p>\n

So far, Clippers able to keep everyone else out of house, including Cuban, agents. Everyone. They’re in four-corners until midnight Eastern. \u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 9, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The sudden loss of Jordan threw the Mavericks into panic mode. They had already signed shooting guard Wesley Matthews from the Trail Blazers, and he\u00a0is coming off an Achilles injury that forced him to miss the last 22 games of last season. \u00a0Matthews’s original contract was supposed to be\u00a0$57 million over \"deandrejordan1\"four years with Jordan also under contract. \u00a0However, without Jordan, the Mavericks have decided to push Matthews’ contract to\u00a0$70 million over four years<\/a>\u00a0instead of using the extra money for other acquisitions.<\/p>\n

Having already lost last year’s starting center, Tyson Chandler, to the Suns<\/a>, Dallas did not have any starting centers on the roster and therefore needed to sign one. \u00a0They promptly traded a second-round pick to the Bucks for Zaza Pachulia<\/a>, the 31-year old center who is the only active NBA player to hail from the country of Georgia. While it doesn’t seem like Pachulia is a step up from Chandler, last season’s\u00a0on\/off numbers of both players suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n

These tables from Basketball-Reference<\/a>\u00a0show Pachulia’s on\/off numbers last season, with the first row being “on court”, the second row being “off court”, and the third column being the difference:<\/p>\n