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Last week the Dallas Mavericks turned their off-season into one of the most important for their franchise.
With Dirk Nowitzki aging and the team lacking young talent to build around besides Chandler Parsons they needed a breath of fresh air which free agent signings of Wes Matthews and DeAndre Jordan will undoubtedly do.
Mark Cuban’s team is always thinking championship or bust but now more than ever they have their eyes on the prize.
The Mavericks are looking to fill out the rest of their roster with veterans and they have a very familiar face in mind.
According to Eddie Seiko of the Dallas Morning News they could look to bring veteran Jason Terry back.
Since they got the thumbs-up from free-agent center DeAndre Jordan, which instantly turned their summer into a massive success story, the Mavericks have had conversations with Terry and his camp about returning to Dallas, where he spent half of his 16 NBA seasons and helped win the 2011 championship….
The thinking for the Mavericks is that Jordan can cover up so many defensive liabilities that having Terry, never known as a strong defender, makes sense, even though he will be 38 when next season tips off.
Jason Terry spent 8 seasons of his 16 year career in Dallas and at the age of 38 Terry only has a couple of years left which I can see no better way to go out than with Dallas.
Terry will have to be convinced to leave a rival team in Houston, but if anyone has a shot it’s the Dallas Mavericks.
If Terry does in-fact leave it will fill out the roster, unless a trade is constructed later in the off-season which very well could happen with talks of Jeremy Lin going to Dallas.
The Mavericks do sign Terry it will provide them with another outside threat to go alongside Chandler Parsons, Wes Matthews, and Dirk Nowitzki.
The moves the Mavericks have made clearly contested the San Antonio Spurs, and if the Rockets do lose Terry it will put more pressure on the team to look at other options and get creative to add some talent.
A Mavericks reunion for Jason Terry seems to be best case scenario for both sides as Terry would more than likely call it a career, with the franchise where he helped bring the franchise its first NBA championship.
