Dallas Mavericks: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason

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The Dallas Mavericks will enter a season without Dirk Nowitzki on the roster for the first time since 1997 with intriguing young players and many questions.

The Dallas Mavericks haven’t reached the postseason since 2016 as the franchise has bottomed out a bit over the last three seasons while trying to find its way back into the Western Conference’s elite.

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The Mavs, who are still just eight years removed from the franchise’s lone title, have flown mostly under the radar since taking down the Miami Heat superteam in the 2011 NBA Finals, reaching the playoffs four times in those eight seasons and never advancing past the first round.

This is a huge transition year in Dallas, as iconic Dirk Nowitzki has finally retired, setting an NBA record for playing 21 seasons with the same team.

The Mavericks will now move forward with a pair of young stars, reigning Rookie of the Year Luka Doncic and former New York Knicks All-Star Kristaps Porzingis, but the cast surrounding that pair has many questions.

Besides Nowitzki, the Mavericks will be coming back without veteran guards Devin Harris and Trey Burke and big man project Salah Mejri, who never quite worked out as hoped.

Kostas Antetokounmpo and Daryl Macon, spare parts both, are also gone and the team’s hopes for Satnam Singh, the first native of India drafted by an NBA club, are gone as his rights were sent to the Memphis Grizzlies in a desperation deal for someone to man the 1 spot.

Dallas will run it back with many of last year’s cast, however, and it will be interesting to see how much longtime coach Rick Carlisle — tied with Erik Spoelstra of the Heat as the second-longest tenured coach in the NBA behind San Antonio Spurs legend Gregg Popovich — can bring the group along.

Here are the grades for a busy, yet not franchise-changing, offseason in the Big D.

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