Mavs interested in 2-year extension for Christian Wood

DALLAS — As the Dallas Mavericks proceed to play at a excessive degree and creep towards the highest of the Western Conference standings, a latest report stated the entrance workplace could be keen to increase the crew’s lately acquired massive man.

The Mavs are interested in a two-year, $36 million extension for Christian Wood, according to sources from ESPN’s Tim MacMahon. He reported the potential extension Tuesday morning.

After beginning the season on the bench and never being part of closing teams, a mid-December damage to starter Maxi Kleber thrust Wood into the beginning lineup.

Since that time, each Wood and the Mavs have performed a few of their greatest basketball of the season.

The Mavs (22-16) are on a seven-game successful streak, the longest because the franchise’s 2010-2011 NBA championship season. Dallas is fourth in the West and solely 2.5 video games behind the at the moment top-seeded Denver Nuggets (24-13).

Since Wood turned a starter, the 6’9″ massive man is averaging 19.7 factors, 8.4 rebounds and a pair of.3 blocks per sport.

While the Mavs are reportedly interested in protecting Wood on a two-year extension, the 27-year-old California native is eligible to signal a four-year, $77 million extension.

The crew’s entrance workplace does not must look too far again into the previous to discover a related state of affairs management finds itself in with Wood.

Former level guard Jalen Brunson spent his first 4 years in the NBA with the Mavs. However, there have been a number of reviews and rumors throughout his final couple of years with the crew that Brunson would have been keen to signal a four-year extension with the crew earlier than making it to free company.

In January 2022, Brunson reportedly went to the Dallas entrance workplace to debate an extension — however the Mavs declined to take action, according to ESPN’s Tim MacMahon.

The crew allowed Brunson to develop into an unrestricted free agent, resulting in him leaving the crew and signing a four-year, $104 million contract with the New York Knicks in the course of the 2022 offseason.

If Wood is not interested in a two-year extension or the Mavs resolve to commerce him this season, the entrance workplace must work out this case earlier than the Feb. 9 commerce deadline.