Mavericks Make MULTIPLE Moves... This is HUGE

As the videos go over today, the Dallas Mavericks have made multiple moves. And one of the more interesting days in recent memory, Masai Ujiri got very active, making over three signings. We're going to break down the moves to discuss the craziness that happened today, as well as a ton of other updates, including some notes surrounding Rez Johnson Jr., Dusty May, and more. But before we get into it all, a very quick reminder to hit that subscribe button. You guys are in peace with support. Jays, we have a lot to discuss today, and it was a very weird day. If you were keeping up with Mavs Twitter and just Mavs in general, If you weren't, we'll cover you now. Moves happened. They signed a guy, then they waived him. They signed him, they waived him. A lot of people are wondering why on earth that's happening. We will break it all down, but they have made multiple roster moves, and let's dive into it right here. So they initially, earlier today, signed Matt Cross. People started talking about it, and then they said, okay, that's very interesting. Then they waived Matt Cross, and they signed Darren Green Jr. And we're like, okay, what's going on now? They then waived Darren Green Jr. and signed Chris Mannett. So all of this is happening. They made a bunch of moves, a bunch of signings, And we'll preface it now, the reason they're doing all this, for those unfamiliar, you also, by signing them and then waiving them, these players, these prospects now are going to be signing with the Mavs G League team. And because they signed and then waived, they get a bonus when joining the G League team. So because it happened in succession here, all these guys will be signing, we presume at least, with the G League affiliate, which now, again, a prospect isn't really a term you hear used in the NBA much, but Jason, now you have a bunch of prospects that you gave incentives to essentially to actually join the Legends, you got the Texas Legends, you give you give them now more money and you have a bunch of interesting names that could be competing in training camp for a spot and it's a ten contract a two-way contract i'm a very big fan and this is a classic kind of new to us having a competent GM like Masai Ujiri, well and it's exactly what Masai did with the Raptors right i mean we kind of mentioned he the way he ran things in Toronto is very similar to the way he's kind of running things here in Dallas and so you're going to get all these guys like you said you don't guarantee you have the rights in a lot of ways but what you do is incentivize them to sign back with the Texas Legends stay on that G League and like you said become that prospect they want so um not to mention we talked about three moves they also then literally 10 minutes ago waived Chris Mantas and signed Diaz Graham now Diaz Graham actually has a number which is kind of why i feel like we're going to make the video now because usually when that happens means he's probably gonna be the guy that stays on the roster at least for the next couple days obviously they're still gonna have roster cut downs and that of course is gonna affect Dwight Powell which we'll have a video on later but it's good to see like you said a competent GM knowing what he's doing and putting some effective moves and I would almost call them like sneaky moves in some ways that could help us later on in the season yeah and we're having each of them now because all of them are in the Mavericks pipeline still and there is one more notable than the rest before we do a quick note from our sponsor Anthem Mobile, old throws a great outfit off fast an old beat-up belt that just doesn't fit right most guys are still wearing belts with stretched out holes that either pinch your waist or sag and throw off your entire look and that's why I'm excited to have Anson Belt and Buckle as the sponsor of today's video. 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excited for one more than the other but it is interesting to see now as you start to look at you know let's look at Darren Green here a really really good shooter you have Matt Cross as well who you know not really anything else but a shooter as well these are going to be names that we have to keep an eye out on and i actually am very interested in Darren Green and i think he has a decent chance or probably the best chance out of all these guys to actually potentially make an impact on the NBA team at some point but jace is there anyone who kind of stands out to you more than the rest when we kind of talk about um the Texas Legends now we're going to be keeping an eye out on you know the entire year with the G League and seeing how things go with obviously the contracts and the rules the specific rules with the contracts and whether they go Exhibit 10 or whatever i think the roster strategy here is pretty smart and now it's created a very very nice route to go to the Texas Legends any one of these guys kind of stand out to you ahead of some of the other ones i like Darren Green i think obviously getting to see him in the summer league was great and you know the four games him averaging over 15 points per game is something but Cross is a guy that it seems like the Mavericks do like because he is somebody who has already been in the organization as he was with the Texas Legends last offseason so um you know six points per game but the six rebounds per game also kind of pops in he almost is a guy who if he could just take the ball and shoot more often it would work out because his field goal percentage is 50 from uh from 50 and then 41 from threes like the percentages are there but it's kind of an interesting way that he plays the game which i think is part of the reason why he's on the Texas Legends and not exactly on the you know on the Dallas Mavericks but all these guys really do have kind of like the the i always like to say with prospects it really does matter about one specific thing you do right and if you can have one specific thing you do right then guess what they're going to take the chance on you so i am interested in seeing what Chris Mendes has because he's a guy who really hasn't been in this organization and the stats just don't intrigue me really that much was 10 games last year for the Capital City Go-Go in 4.9 points per game 1.7 rebounds per game the percentages weren't great so i am a little you know he's probably the one that i'm least excited for but obviously with this there's a lot of different things that kind of go into making all of these signings and kind of why we're going to see you know certain guys and certain you know contracts being given out yeah and obviously again with the Exhibit 10 contract you look at some of them here uh the affiliate player rules there's a lot of weird rules that are kind of going on now a new G League rule as well up to five affiliate player designations waived players can join the team and they remain NBA free agents so if an NBA team wants to come snag them they can like anything um but the final guy i want to touch on here uh Chris Mendes i'm not super super excited about but Diaz Graham stats aren't crazy but keep in mind with him you mentioned he has a number this could change like it's still kind of ongoing but this was in college as opposed to the G League clearly and i have faith in Mike Schmitz who's known as a you know well well-renowned i want to call him prospect prospect guy scouting guy who has got a lot of drafts right and was at least you know attributed to a lot of draft success throughout his um you time as a writer and analyst it seems now throughout all these moves they're sticking with Diaz Graham I'm just more excited to see more internal competition and I know a lot of people are going crazy because why they're signing so many guys I'm they're sticking with it seems Graham for now I'm more excited to kind of see what happens with the rest so let us know down below it's been an absolutely crazy crazy day and um yeah let me know your favorite one out of these players we'll keep you up to date thank you guys for watching