{"id":626695,"date":"2026-07-20T02:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/626695\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T02:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:27:13","slug":"dallas-mavericks-acquire-former-no-1-pick-zaccharie-risacher-in-3-team-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/626695\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks acquire former No. 1 pick Zaccharie Risacher in 3-team trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gettyimages-2186099693-e1784504428650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-653d32e2=\"\">ATLANTA, GA &#8211; NOVEMBER 25: Zaccharie Risacher #10 of the Atlanta Hawks high fives before the game against the Dallas Mavericks on November 25, 2024 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; The Dallas Mavericks just acquired former No. 1 overall draft pick Zaccharie Risacher and a top 55 protected 2027 second-round pick from the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The transaction was a part of a three-team trade that also included the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dallas sent guard Ryan Nembhard to Atlanta and a 2027 second-round pick, originally acquired from the Chicago Bulls to Oklahoma City in the deal to acquire 21-year-old Risacher was selected first overall in the 2024 NBA Draft by the Hawks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Risacher also has international experience with France, helping the senior national team during the 2025 EuroBasket tournament after previously winning a silver medal at the 2023 FIBA Under-19 World Cup and a bronze medal at the 2022 FIBA Under-17 World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/gettyimages-2284393763-e1784503766101.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Finland&#8217;s Olivier Nkamhoua (R) vies with France&#8217;s #21 Zaccharie Risacher during the qualifier basketball match between France and Finland for the men&#8217;s 2027 FIBA World Championships at the Palais des Sports in Pau, south-western France on July 6, 202 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Risacher is a 6-foot-9 forward averaging 11.1 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 142 career games with Atlanta, including 119 starts. He earned NBA All-Rookie First Team honors in the 2024-25 season after averaging 12.6 points and 3.6 rebounds in 75 games. Risacher scored at least 30 points four times as a rookie, including a career-high 38 points against the Brooklyn Nets on April 10, 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Nembhard, who joined the Mavericks as an undrafted rookie in 2025-26, averaged 6.6 points, 5.3 assists and 2.2 rebounds in 60 games, including 27 starts, before being traded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article was provided by the Dallas Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/nba\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/nba\/mavericks\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/ga\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ATLANTA, GA &#8211; NOVEMBER 25: Zaccharie Risacher #10 of the Atlanta Hawks high fives before the game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,14151,5,2291,555,40,4,197,1321],"class_list":["post-626695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-ga","tag-hockey","tag-mavericks","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-stars","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116949945401045649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}