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In Signing Kemba Walker, The Dallas Mavericks Are Addressing Shortsighted Offseason Decisions
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 21: Kemba Walker #8 of the New York Knicks in motion in opposition to the … [+]
Kemba Walker is anticipated to signal with the Dallas Mavericks as early as this week. In doing so, the previous four-time All-Star will slot into the position of the third level guard, serving to run the offense alongside Luka Doncic and Spencer Dinwiddie.
Signing Walker wasn’t Dallas’ Plan A, and bringing him in doesn’t assure success, particularly given his current historical past of knee troubles. However the Mavericks are determined for extra ball dealing with and needed to do one thing. But, in signing Walker, Dallas is reluctantly signaling that its offseason signings did little, if something, to enhance the roster.
Probably the most impactful transfer the Mavericks made final summer season was letting level guard Jalen Brunson go away in free company and receiving nothing in return. The ramifications of that shortsighted resolution proceed to ripple via the group. It’s the rationale Walker is just not becoming a member of the membership after being handed over by each workforce in free company.
Dallas by no means thought to handle Brunson’s departure significantly. The workforce traded into the 2022 NBA Draft to get Jaden Hardy within the second spherical. It’s a transfer that appears increasingly like compensation for Brunson getting ready to go away. Whereas Hardy is popping heads within the G League, main the league in scoring, he hasn’t had the identical alternatives within the NBA.
As soon as free company began, Brunson was out the door and headed to New York; the Mavericks signed JaVale McGee fairly than filling the emptiness he left behind. The McGee signing has Jason Kidd’s fingerprints throughout it. McGee and Kidd have been each members of the Los Angeles Lakers—McGee a participant and Kidd an assistant coach—when the Lakers received the championship within the NBA bubble in 2020.
Signing McGee ran counter to how the Mavericks discovered success of their run to the Western Convention Finals in 2022. Dallas ran a two-guard offense with 3-and-D wings and both a rolling middle or stretch large. They confronted among the league’s finest facilities in Rudy Gobert and Deandre Ayton. Additionally they noticed McGee. Dallas’ offense ran these facilities off the ground.
Regardless of this, McGee signed a three-year take care of the Mavericks and was promised a beginning spot. After seven video games, McGee misplaced his beginning job and moved to the bench. He performs lower than 10 minutes per recreation now if he performs in any respect. Signing McGee fairly than addressing the quick want for one more ball handler continues to be blunderous.
Kidd and the workforce’s mouthpieces proclaimed earlier than the season that Josh Inexperienced and Frank Ntilikina would decide up the ball-handling slack. Inexperienced has performed effectively this season, albeit inconsistently, however he doesn’t have the ball in his arms a lot. Ntilikina has solely appeared in 5 video games.
Dallas’ entrance workplace left themselves a fallback measure if issues received powerful. They received cute and left a roster spot open in case a participant got here alongside that caught their curiosity. They have been compelled to fill it with Facundo Campazzo when it grew to become clear that issues have been going sideways. Dallas waived Campazzo this week to make room for Walker.
In concept, Walker fills some holes left by Brunson’s departure. He’s a former competent guard who has run high-octane NBA offenses. What he’s now’s anybody’s guess, nevertheless. He solely performed 37 video games with the New York Knicks final season, falling out of favor with head coach Tom Thibodeau at one level and ending his season prematurely to handle a lingering knee concern.
New York traded him to Detroit over the summer season, the place Walker and the Pistons ultimately reached a buyout settlement. Since then, he sat unsigned till a distressed Mavericks workforce got here knocking. For the group’s sake and the followers’ fraying sanity, hopefully, Walker can recapture a few of his former self.
Nonetheless, his signing is indicative of a workforce in disarray. It’s not simply the shedding streak that Dallas is at present experiencing that’s the issue; it’s your complete course of that led thus far. Walker can solely achieve this a lot to treatment what ails the franchise. The workforce’s management must take a tough take a look at what led thus far to make sure that it isn’t so smug and shortsighted shifting ahead.
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Dallas investors plan to restore historic shopping center
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At four times the size of Highland Park Village, there’s nothing small about the idea of turning around and tuning up Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza.
As of Friday morning, Ray Washburne, president of HP Village Management, planned to have power washers cleaning the grounds of the shopping and office center built more than 100 years ago.
An affiliate of HP Village Management officially closed on the Kansas City property with 970,000 square feet of commercial space spread across 15 blocks on June 28.
Country Club Plaza’s notoriety in the real estate community is that it was one of the first planned suburban shopping centers to accommodate shoppers arriving by car.
In the Midwest, it has served as a destination for out-of-town and out-of-state shoppers, much like Highland Park Village has, through the years, according to Washburne.
The opportunity to purchase the aging property was first brought to Washburne when he was speaking at an Urban Land Institute conference last May. Someone from investment manager Nuveen, coincidentally the lender on Highland Park Village, asked him if he’d be interested in another big project.
More than $100 million was spent on the updates to Highland Park Village. Washburne said that much more than $100 million will be spent on the Missouri complex, with Nuveen remaining involved.
Given Country Club Plaza’s size, it’s been envisaged into separate districts with a contemporary fashion district, a food and beverage district, and a luxury and designer district.
It’s similar to the retail balance that’s been struck between Dallas’ Knox Street, with which an affiliate of HP Village Management has also been involved, and Highland Park Village, Washburne said.
Currently, there are Tiffany & Co. and Coach stores at Country Club Plaza, but Washburne said there have been conversations with a lot of luxury retailers.
“They’ve seen what we’ve done [with Highland Park Village], and that’s very important,” he said. “There’s a trust factor with the tenants as there is a trust factor that they come in and they’re going to be in with someone who’s taking a long-term approach. We’re not going to put lipstick on it, paint a few storefronts, put a couple tenants in and sell it.”
Washburne said the first priority is security.
“We spend four times as much on security in the Village than they do, and they’re four times the size we are,” said Washburne.
Kansas City, like the Dallas area, has been tapped as a site for FIFA World Cup games in 2026, including a quarterfinal.
It’s a milestone that makes improvements at Country Club Plaza all-the-more critical without forgoing a sense of place.
“The pixie dust on this stuff is really creating an authenticity and uniqueness to the center. What we did at the Village is lead with a food and beverage scene that’s local. Second, you also have to have a number of local retailers,” said Washburne.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Multiple Kansas City architects have been engaged to help with an updated master plan for the Edward Delk-design buildings. Baroque revival and Moorish revival styles were utilized to mimic the architecture of one of Kansas City’s sister cities, Seville, Spain.
Leasing efforts are being led by Stephen Summers, whose family co-owns HP Village Management.
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BREAKING: Dallas Mavericks To Sign Versatile Forward From New Orleans Pelicans
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The Dallas Mavericks have made their first move of free agency and it’s not the name some expected. While the Mavs have discussions with Klay Thompson and Derrick Jones Jr., they’ve decided to go ahead and pull the trigger on a 3&D wing.
According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Mavericks are signing New Orleans Pelicans’ forward Naji Marshall to a 3-year, $27 million deal. It was reported that Marshall could become a target for Dallas if they couldn’t come to agreements with Jones Jr., who remains a free agent. Marshall will fit into part of Dallas’ mid-level exception.
READ MORE: Dallas Mavericks Free Agent Target Plans To Sign With Orlando Magic
Marshall, a 26-year-old from Xavier, has spent all four years of his career with New Orleans. He averaged 7.1 PPG and 3.6 RPG as part of a deep Pelicans team and shot a career-high 38.7% from 3-point range. He has good size at 6’7″ and 220 pounds and offers defensive versatility.
Depending on the structure of his deal, Dallas will still have around $4 million left in their midlevel exception. It’s not certain if Derrick Jones Jr., who Nico Harrison called their priority 1A and 1B this offseason, would be willing to take a 1+1 deal worth the remaining of the exception to return. They’re also still working out a possible sign-and-trade to acquire Klay Thompson. If that falls through, they could work out a sign-and-trade for Marshall if they needed to.
Welcome to Dallas Naji Marshall. He should have an easier opportunity than ever to get his shot off getting open looks from Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving. Signings cannot become official until July 6th.
READ MORE: Warriors’ Klay Thompson To Meet With Dallas Mavericks Among Other Teams In Free Agency
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Stars announce 2024 development camp roster | Dallas Stars
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