NBA Trade Rumors: 4 Notable Point Guards Targeted By Dallas Mavericks

The Dallas Mavericks will be without Kyrie Irving until at least the middle of next season as he recovers from an ACL tear. For a team hoping to be a factor in the Western Conference, they'll need to patch up that huge void in the backcourt until he returns. With that, we're hearing reports that there are four notable point guards that the Mavs are targeting.

REPORT: The Mavericks are expected to use their $5.7 million MLE to target Chris Paul, Dennis Schroder, D'Angelo Russell, or Malcolm Brogdon, per @ShamsCharania.

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All four, Chris Paul, Dennis Schroder, D'Angelo Russell, and Malcolm Brogdon, are unrestricted free agents, and none of them should be expecting anything more than the taxpayer midlevel exception ($5.7 million) this coming season. If they'd prefer the non-taxpayer midlevel exception, any of them could bump up their salary to $14.1 million, but they'd almost certainly be stuck with a non-contender.

The Brodgon connection, for one, makes some sense. Back in 2016-17, in his rookie season with the Milwaukee Bucks, his coach was none other than Jason Kidd—the current head coach of the Mavericks.

Furthermore, Kidd suggested midway through that season (and was mocked for it) that Brogdon could win Rookie of the Year over Joel Embiid. And when award time came, it was indeed Brogdon that took home the honors. (Embiid finished third, despite playing only 31 games).

Brogdon, however, is an injury risk, as he hasn't played more than 56 games more than once in a season in the last six years. If he should go down while Kyrie is still recovering, that would be a problem.

Russell is a former All-Star (2018-19) and is also high on the Mavs' target list. Schroder, like Russell, an ex-LA Laker, is also on the list. Paul, the future Hall of Famer, is now 40, but had a solid season in San Antonio this past year, starting all 82 games and averaging 28 minutes, while scoring 8.8 points per game with 7.4 assists.