Dallas Mavericks: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason

Overall

With all the player movement in the NBA this summer and with the Dallas Mavericks having a ton of cap space to work with, it feels like this offseason was a big miss for a team that says it wants to take a step forward.

The Mavs committed a max deal to keep Kristaps Porzingis, who hasn’t suited up for the Mavs yet, and outside of bench pieces Seth Curry and Boban Marjanovic, committed a lot of future cap room to role players who have helped them win 33, 24 and 33 games over the last three seasons.

Dallas gave three more years to Dwight Powell, four (three guaranteed) to Maxi Kleber and three to Dorian Finney-Smith, none of whom has ever proved to be more than rotation pieces for a non-playoff team.

The Mavericks had two young stars in Porzingis and Luke Doncic to sell to potential free agents and came up surprisingly empty.

It’s one thing to run it back with a team that has won or come close to winning.

To do so with a group that has been at the bottom of the Western Conference three years running? It seems to be putting an awful lot of faith in guys who have done little to show a reason for doing so.

None of the moves in a vacuum is particularly bad. But the combination of moves doesn’t seem to add up.

Grade: D