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Here, we look at what every team in the Western Conference needs...
It's still fairly staggering to contemplate that the Mavericks are a lottery team after pushing the button on the Kyrie Irving trade only for it to end disastrously. You would expect them to look for a mercurial talent with huge upside to pair with Luka Doncic, but when does Dallas ever do what we expect?
The Mavericks are in dire need of defense, any defense. Giving up Dorian Finney-Smith in the Irving deal affected Dallas massively and that's the biggest hole to fill immediately.
But they'll probably hope to swing for the fences and snare a star-of-the-future alongside Luka. That may be a better course of action given the dissatisfaction the Slovenian showed after last season's meek collapse.