10:32 am: Jones has officially been waived, the team announced (via Twitter).
5:22 am: The Mavericks intend to waive point guard Tyus Jones, reports Marc Stein of The Stein Line (Twitter link). Because the move will happen before the end of the day on Sunday, Jones will retain his playoff eligibility for his next team.
Jones, 29, is an 11th-year NBA veteran known for his ability to set up teammates and take care of the ball. He has career averages of 7.3 points, 4.3 assists, and just 0.8 turnovers in 20.7 minutes per game across 738 regular season appearances for Minnesota, Memphis, Washington, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas.
After four-year stints with both the Timberwolves and Grizzlies, Jones has bounced around the NBA in recent years, playing for four teams in the past three seasons. He opened this year with the Magic, having signed a one-year, $7MM deal with the team during the 2025 offseason, but had a disappointing year in Orlando, averaging just 3.1 PPG and 2.6 APG on .349/.281/.875 shooting in a bench role.
Jones was traded to the Hornets at the deadline in what was a salary-dump deal from the Magic’s perspective, allowing them to duck below the luxury tax line. Charlotte subsequently flipped him to the Mavericks in a separate trade.
At the time, reports indicated that Dallas had attempted to sign Jones last summer before ending up with D’Angelo Russell and that they’d be happy to have him on the roster for the rest of the season. However, it appears as if the guard prefers to try to catch on with a playoff team.
Waiving Jones will open up a spot on the Mavs’ 15-man roster, and Stein suggests there’s a strong chance that two-way guard Ryan Nembhard will be promoted to fill that opening. Nembhard, who can’t be active for more than 50 regular season games on his two-way contract, appeared in 33 consecutive contests from late November through early February and has been active for 44 in total, but has been on Dallas’ inactive list since Feb. 5.
If the Mavs were to convert Nembhard to a standard contract in the coming days, it would remove his games-played cap for the season and would allow the club to back-fill his two-way slot by the March 4 deadline for two-way signings.
Besides Jones, veteran forward Khris Middleton is another buyout candidate in Dallas. The team has reportedly left the decision up to him, with Denver said to be among his potential suitors.
Welome to the Chicago Bulls!
So he can play with Tre, also we should have never traded Vuc in the first place.
Now we have no Center because the other guys are injured.
Him and cole antony. Bulls still Need more guards
Celtic
Come to philly please
Rockets maybe
The Rockets should be all over this
All that talk saying that the Mavericks wanted him for years and then waive him soon after acquiring him is interesting
He is really not that good to be honest. He’s not really contributing to winning basketball. His size is what limits him on defense. And I don’t think he scores enough or gets in the positions enough to help playmate make. I do think Houston would be a good spot Just because they have defenders all around, but generally when you’re bouncing around on multiple teams, your career is starting to come to an end. 29 bit he does have 11 years So his pension is pretty much set. Hopefully he can get signed this summer and try to get to the lease year 12 and 13
He still takes care of the ball – even this year his assist to TO ratio was pretty decent. But the thing that really hurt, especially with Orlando, is his 3-point shooting fell off a cliff.
He’s so much better than Pat Spencer it’s not funny.
1000%
Milwaukee or Houston should be on this