Dallas Mavericks 2020-2021 Season Roster Preview

With the whole world going through a pandemic, the Dallas Maverick’s and the NBA endured a very interesting 2019-2020 season. Here in the United States, many of us fans could not root for our teams in their respective arena’s. It was and still is a difficult time for several countries around the globe, but we do get a chance to watch some of our favorite athletes back in action. Today I’m going to do a quick preview of the Dallas Maverick’s 2020-2021 Roster.

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Dallas made several changes in a turbulent and fast offseason. Let’s take a look at the previous and current rosters to compare.

2019-2020 ROSTER	2020-2021 ROSTER
GUARDS	GUARDS
Delon Wright	Nate Hinton (2-Way)
Luka Doncic	Luka Doncic
Trey Burke	Trey Burke
Jalen Brunson	Jalen Brunson
J.J. Barea	J.J. Barea
Courtney Lee	Josh Richardson
Tim Hardaway	Tim Hardaway
Seth Curry	Josh Green
Antonius Cleveland	FORWARDS
FORWARDS	Devonte Patterson
Josh Reaves	Tyler Bey (2-Way)
Ryan Broekhoff	Freddie Gillespie
Maxi Kleber	Maxi Kleber
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist	Wesley Iwundu
Justin Jackson	James Johnson
Dorian Finney-Smith	Dorian Finney-Smith
CENTERS	CENTERS
Dwight Powell	Dwight Powell
Kristaps Porzingis	Kristaps Porzingis
Boban Marjanovic	Boban Marjanovic
Willie Cauley-Stein	Willie Cauley-Stein

Dallas brings back a solid core and have some very interesting additions. Josh Richardson and James Johnson, two former Miami Heat players are in the fold to add some toughness and tenacity to the team. Dallas will have to work without an automatic bucket in Seth Curry. So the offense is going to rely tremendously on Luka, Richardson, Kristaps, and Hardaway Jr.

The Maverick guards are an interesting bunch. Dallas will be able to play a few different lineups and small lineups. Dallas has a good mix of forwards and centers to help offset some of the smaller lineups that the Mavericks might play. Of course, waiting on KP is going to be tough to bear, but the good news is he isn’t out too long and we should see him in January or early February.

Jalen Brunson and Dwight Powell will be very helpful additions to the team again. Missing both of them to injury was huge, and Dallas sorely missed what they brought to the game. Dallas is going to have to see how Finney-Smith develops in year four, and with 4-5 rookies, the Mavericks are going to have young legs and a lot of inexperience.