via the NBA transaction wire<\/a>.<\/p>\nLundy, selected 46th overall in the 2023 draft, arrived in Dallas on a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 contract after limited earlier NBA exposure. <\/p>\n
He had spent most of his first two professional seasons on two-way deals with the Atlanta Hawks and Los Angeles Clippers, appearing in only nine regular-season games while dealing with left ankle problems. <\/p>\n
During the Mavericks\u2019 four preseason contests this month he logged 11.7 minutes per game and averaged 5.5 points, numbers that positioned him as a candidate for the Texas Legends, Dallas\u2019s G League affiliate.<\/p>\n
Poulakidas occupied one of the team\u2019s three two-way contracts after signing a two-year deal in March. <\/p>\n
Down the stretch of last season, he appeared in 13 games, averaging 8.8 points and 2.3 rebounds in 19.5 minutes while converting 40.3 percent of his three-point attempts. <\/p>\n
In the preseason, he remained productive, totaling 21 points across 41 minutes in three games and making 5 of 11 threes. Despite that output, the organization chose to free the slot rather than retain him for the regular season.<\/p>\n
The dual waivers leave Dallas with 18 players under contract\u201416 on standard deals and two remaining on two-ways. NBA rules permit a maximum of 15 standard contracts plus up to three two-way contracts once the regular season begins, so the Mavericks remain over the standard-roster limit. <\/p>\n
Attention now turns to veteran center Dwight Powell, whose minimum-salary contract is only partially guaranteed for $1 million. <\/p>\n
Retaining him would require the club to trade or waive another player carrying a fully guaranteed salary by Monday\u2019s deadline in order to reach the permitted total of 15 standard contracts.<\/p>\n
These cuts reflect the routine final-week roster reshaping that occurs across the league each October, as teams balance developmental upside, positional need, and salary-cap mechanics. <\/p>\n
For Lundy and Poulakidas the immediate future is uncertain; both remain free agents who can pursue new opportunities with other NBA clubs, G League teams, or overseas leagues. <\/p>\n
For the Mavericks, the next 48 hours will determine whether Powell stays or becomes the final casualty of the roster deadline, a decision that will finalize the 15-man group that opens the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Mavericks trimmed their roster on Saturday by waiving guards Seth Lundy and John Poulakidas, moves that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,166,6],"class_list":["post-862011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-mavericks","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117462195487394425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862011","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=862011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}