Fourth-year wing Josh Green is entering the final year of his rookie contract with the Mavericks. The former first-round pick is eligible for a rookie scale extension until October 23, which is the day before the regular season begins.
Marc Stein reported last month that the Mavericks had opened extension talks with Green, but an agreement has yet to be reached.
Speaking to the media on Friday, Green said he hopes to reach a long-term deal, as Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News relays.
“At the end of the day, I know I want to be here,” Green said. “I’m going to work as if I’m going to be here for a long time. I want to be able to win in Dallas; I want to be in Dallas.
“Whatever their decision is their decision, but at the end of the day I’ve got the same goal every single day and that’s to be the best teammate and the best player I can be for the team.”
If Green doesn’t sign an extension, he’ll be eligible for restricted free agency next summer.
Here’s more on the Mavs:
- Star Luka Doncic said he’s still not exactly sure what’s wrong with his nagging thigh injury, which bothered him last season and lingered into this summer’s World Cup. “It’s better, but we still have some appointments,” Doncic said, per Townsend of The Dallas Morning News. “So when we get the clear ‘What is it?,’ we’ll let you guys know.” When asked if he would be a full participant in training camp, which started Wednesday because the team is traveling overseas, Doncic said he might speak to the trainer about skipping “some stuff” due to two-a-days. However, according to Townsend, head coach Jason Kidd expected Doncic to be present for everything, despite being less than 100%. “And so the topic of getting him stronger, and getting him close to 100% before the first game is the goal,” Kidd said. “And so to answer the second part, yes, he will participate in two-a-days.”
- Doncic also said he’s looking forward to building more chemistry with Kyrie Irving, who re-signed with Dallas this offseason after being acquired at the February trade deadline, writes Tim MacMahon of ESPN. “I mean better for sure,” Doncic said. “He came in the middle of the season last year, and we didn’t have much time. We went straight to playing games. It takes time to do chemistry, especially on the court, so we didn’t have the whole training camp and then I mean the preseason too. So I think it’s going to be way better.”
- Speaking of Irving, he discussed why he decided to return to the Mavs in free agency, MacMahon writes in another article for ESPN. “It wasn’t too difficult of a process,” said Irving, who signed a three-year, $120MM+ deal. “Had Dallas as No. 1 on my list. Obviously I looked elsewhere — salary cap opportunities, where I could fit in with other guys around the league — but there just wasn’t much space. And me being 31 now, I had to have a different vantage point, and I felt like I could not just settle here but be happy to come back here and be welcomed back with a warm embrace.”
- Veteran sharpshooter Seth Curry, who signed a two-year, $8MM deal with the Mavs in free agency, is also happy to be back in Dallas, per Eddie Sefko of Mavs.com. This is Curry’s third stint with the team. “A lot of potential, a lot of talent – top to bottom, a lot of guys that can play,” he said. “It’s about putting it together. Offensively, we should have one of the best rosters in the league. It’s about getting timely stops on defense.”
i think a realistic expectation for this team is 82-0 and then 16-0 in the playoffs (dwight powell is our starting center and we have a good chance to be below .500 again)
No, Doncìc and Irving should be good enough to win 40-45 games, that is as long as Irving is all in.
Green 4/40 or 4/48 in this era of overpaying?
If they could get him for that both the team and the player would be ecstatic.
30-40 win team…
That’s if the stars play 60+ games each…
If they suit up for every game it could be different… But I don’t see that happening…
Play in team with a bigger chance at a high lottery pick than home court advantage…
Imagine the roster that would have been available for Dallas had they not foolishly squandered the last of their real assets on Kyrie.
Had they waited, they should have been able to figure out how to involve themselves in the Lillard deal to add Ayton and Jrue Holiday to Doncic, rather than Kyrie. Doncic allows Ayton and Holiday to be the role players that they are, while at the same time improving the overall team defense.
Phoenix ultimately swapped Ayton for Nurkic after foolishly thinking a traditional 5-man had a market.
You clearly never watched ayton on D…..
Had they waited as you suggest. Done nothing or held their assets. Your star player would be unhappy, and quite possibly have requested a trade like Dame did. You never operate under assumptions (especially that of another business, franchise, etc), only real data. Hindsight is 20/20.
Do you think Luka was “happy” playing for Dallas with them adding Kyrie, and still getting their brains beat in??? They couldn’t keep anybody under 125 points. Remember, they still ended up ultimately sitting Luka and Kyrie to try and figure it out for this year.
Do you think Luka will be happy when Dallas does not make the playoffs this year? With two more years of Kyrie who has no trade value, on a team with no assets anybody wants.
The assumption that you can operate on is that other opportunities will surface. Especially during the offseason. It is not a hard decision to take a pass on Kyrie Irving with his recent track record of wrecking teams. Miami is doing that right now. Missed on Lillard. Do you see them desperately trying to add somebody else right now? Nope! They know they can wait. For example, if Embiid gets hurt, and Philly dips, you can get Tobias Harris or James Harden for a bag of balls. Do you think a bag of balls will get you CJ McCullum at some point before the trade deadline? What happens when the Bulls finally decide to rebuild? DeMar DeRozan?
Luka asked management to go after kyrie. And management told him nets wants his friend DFS and luka “okayed” it. Do your research fool
Luka and Kai together, the offense was historic. They replace finney Smith with his clone in omax and bullock with grant williams who are young. (Bullock and DFS D and 3point% was falling rapidly and in their 30s). People also forget that two of our better defenders in maxi and green were out 1/3rd (green) and half (maxi) the season. You replace wood with holmes(cant be worse on D than wood), Mcgee with lively (cant be worse on D than mcgee), frank the tank with exum (wash. Imo), and Pinson for curry (better at everything over Pinson). Hardy is going into his 2nd year and I didn’t even talk about Morris or derrick jones Jr yet- who is also great at D. Thj will be traded at some point to open up more minutes for hardy, green and curry.