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Mavs Sign, Waive Three Players

October 18th, 2025 at 2:49pm CST by Dana Gauruder

2:49 pm: The Mavericks have waived Cross, Sharp, and Smith, according to the team (Twitter link), lining up the trio to join the Legends.

9:45 am: The Mavericks have signed forward Matt Cross, center Jamarion Sharp and guard Zhaire Smith, the team’s PR department tweets.

Cross finished his college career at SMU last season after playing at Massachusetts (2022-24), Louisville (2021-22) and Miami (FL) (2020-21). In his only season with the Mustangs, Cross averaged 11.8 points, 7.6 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.2 steals through 34 games (31 starts). He went undrafted in June.

The 7’5” Sharp appeared in 29 games –including 18 starts — with the Texas Legends, Dallas’ G League affiliate, last season. He averaged 6.4 points, 7.2 rebounds, and 3.2 blocks in 21.6 minutes per contest. This past summer he played for the Mavericks’ Summer League team for the second straight year, averaging, 2.2 PPG, 4.0 RPG, and 1.8 BPG in 16.1 MPG. His agreement with the Mavs was reported last month.

Smith appeared in 14 games (12 starts) for the Texas Legends last season, averaging 20.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game. Smith began the 2024/25 season with the Cleveland Charge, with hom he averaged 6.5 PPG, 3.6 RPG and 1.1 APG through 13 games (four starts).

Smith played two seasons with the Sixers after being drafted in the first round in 2018. Smith’s career got derailed early on due to a broken foot, followed by a life-threatening allergic reaction to sesame that left him forced to use a feeding tube.

It’s likely all three signed Exhibit 10 contracts and will wind up playing for the Legends. They can receive bonuses worth up to $85.300 if they stay with that club for at least 60 days.

Pacific Notes: Holiday, Clips, Hayes, Knecht, Bronny, Kings

May 29th, 2025 at 5:03pm CST by Rory Maher

A recent report indicated that the Clippers are expected to show interest in Celtics guard Jrue Holiday this summer. In an appearance on The Garden Report podcast with Bobby Manning of CLNS (Twitter video link), Law Murray of The Athletic said he thinks L.A.’s interest in Holiday was overstated, pointing to his contract and James Harden‘s likely return as reasons why it might be unrealistic for the Clippers to pursue a Holiday trade.

“For what Jrue does well, you already have a player like that in Kris Dunn, who is going to make like $25 million less than Jrue (next season), who is younger than Jrue, who arguably is at least as athletic, right around around the same size,” Murray said. “And the key thing for me is the role. This doesn’t sound like something that would come from the Clippers’ side of things.”

As Murray noted, there’s a sizeable gap between Holiday’s ($32.4MM) and Dunn’s ($5.43MM) salaries for 2025/26 (and beyond). And while Holiday certainly has a more accomplished résumé than Dunn, he’s also nearly four years older (Holiday turns 35 in June, whereas Dunn turned 31 in March) and is coming off a down year in ’24/25.

Here are a few more notes from around the Pacific:

Jaxson Hayes‘ second season with the Lakers was more successful than his first, but it’s uncertain if he’ll return in ’25/26 following a disappointing playoff showing against Minnesota, writes Khobi Price of The Southern California News Group. The 25-year-old center will be an unrestricted free agent this summer, and the Lakers are known to be looking for upgrades in the middle.
Lakers rookies Dalton Knecht and Bronny James each experienced “roller coaster” debut seasons in different ways, according to Price. Knecht, who had some big scoring outbursts early on in ’24/25, was sent to Charlotte in the Mark Williams deal, only to have the trade rescinded by Los Angeles due concerns over Williams’ medicals. “Anything can happen,” Knecht said during his end-of-season media availability. “Crazy year.”
As for James, he had a slow start to his rookie campaign, most of which was spent in the G League. But the late second-round pick played some his best basketball of the season toward the end of ’24/25, Price notes. “It’s a huge difference in my confidence,” the Lakers guard said. “The start of the year, I was under a lot of pressure. And it was getting to me a little bit. So just having those games like the Bucks game, just having those games in the G League, just built my confidence every day and proved to me I know what I can do and I’m ready to keep growing as a player.”
The Kings hosted a pre-draft workout with six prospects on Thursday, tweets James Ham of The Kings Beat. Brooks Barnhizer (Northwestern), Saint Thomas (USC), Jabri Abdur-Rahim (Providence), Stefan Todorovic (Pepperdine), Matt Cross (SMU) and Tyson Degenhart (Boise State) were the six participants. Abdur-Rahim, whose father Shareef Abdur-Rahim played in Sacramento, said Thursday’s workout was his first with an NBA team, but he has more scheduled in the coming weeks (Twitter video link via Sean Cunningham of NBC Sacramento). The Kings control the 42nd pick in next month’s draft.