{"id":571365,"date":"2026-01-30T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571365\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:48:17","slug":"nba-power-rankings-watch-the-mavericks-treading-before-the-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/571365\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Power Rankings Watch: the Mavericks treading before the trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Dallas Mavericks followed up an undefeated week by going 0-4 since the last edition of the power rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">If they have a few more runs like this most recent one, great. Adding one of this draft class\u2019 potential stars to Cooper Flagg could set Dallas up for contention for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">And if the Mavs can combine more losing with more games like Thursday\u2019s from Cooper Flagg, even better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Dallas came up short against the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday, but Flagg showed his upside as a volume scorer with a career-high 49 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks followed up an undefeated week by going 0-4 since the last edition of the power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,1320,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-571365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-mavericks","13":"tag-mavericks-news","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}