Should the Mavericks be looking to strike a deal before the deadline this year? Sure. The answer for every team should probably always be yes, for the right price. That’s the key, really.
It’s important for teams to explore every avenue of team building. To exhaust every option they can of helping themselves to win now, in the future, or ideally both. One thing the Mavericks might do is work out a trade for an impending restricted free agent.
Restricted free agents are players whose team has the right to match any offer sheet they receive from another team in free agency.