Assigning Grades for the Mavericks’ Friday night win over Utah in Emirates Cup play

After recording his first double-double, Mavs rookie Morez Johnson Jr. earned praise from his coach and teammate for his role in a win over the Jazz.

This is the guy who I think we’ll see regularly.”

Santi Aldama’s gritty debut and a dominant double-double from rookie Morez Johnson ignited a second-half surge, snapping a two-game skid as Dallas rediscovered its championship-level intensity.

Coming off the closest of defeats Wednesday, the Mavs righted the ship against Utah Friday night

The Dallas Mavericks had a great opportunity on their hands in the 2026 NBA Draft. Their new head coach, Dusty May, was coming off a college national championship at Michigan. He knew the draft pool as well as anyone. Things set up nicely to get Cooper Flagg a running mate for years to come. The […] The post Mavericks Drafting Morez Johnson Over Yaxel Lendeborg Already Looks Like Mistake appeared first on HEAVY.

Who will step up other than Dallas’s two stars?

In part two of this series, three rookies are crowned as the most likely to make an All-Defensive team, average 20 points per game and join a playoff rotation as a second-round pick.