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WATCH: Reliving Kyrie Irving's Best Highlights with Mavs

The Dallas Mavericks re-signed star point guard Kyrie Irving to a three-year, $126 million contract this summer. Ahead of what should be a thrilling 2023-24 NBA season, let's take a look back at his best plays as a member of the Mavs last season.
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WATCH: Reliving Kyrie Irving's Best Highlights with Mavs
WATCH: Reliving Kyrie Irving's Best Highlights with Mavs

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The Dallas Mavericks didn’t have the finish they wanted last season, as they missed the postseason for the first time since Luka Doncic’s rookie year in 2018-19. However, Dallas was able to acquire Doncic’s co-star in Kyrie Irving at the trade deadline, and this summer has been all about filling in adequate roster depth around those two.

Doncic and Irving showed incredible offensive potential together, as the Mavs had an offensive rating of 119.2 when they shared the floor together. Now, with a handful of better defensive players and shooters around them, Doncic and Irving will have their eyes set on getting the Mavs back to the Western Conference Finals level we witnessed in the 2021-22 season.

Despite the Mavs’ failure to make the postseason after making their big blockbuster trade, their shortcomings weren’t due to the play of Irving, who averaged 27.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 1.3 steals in 20 games for Dallas. During that stretch, he was close to the rare 50/40/90 efficiency benchmark, as he shot 51.0 percent from the field, 39.2 percent from deep and 94.7 percent from the free-throw line.

From his very first game as a member of the Mavs — a road game against a fully-healthy Los Angeles Clippers team with Doncic out due to injury — it was obvious that Irving was going to be a great fit in Dallas. Irving finished that game with 24 points, four rebounds, five assists, one steal and one block as the Mavs outlasted the Clippers, 110-104.

As we are a little more than a month away from the start of training camp and two months away from the new season beginning, take a moment to relive Irving’s best highlights with the Mavs from last season. Doncic and Irving having a full offseason to get healthy, as well as a revamped roster, should have the league on notice for what’s to come this year.

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DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.

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