Breaking news: signing good players to contract extensions is a good thing. Dallas did that three times this summer — first with Kyrie Irving, although he technically opted-out and then signed a new deal, then with Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington more recently.

This post isn’t to get into the nitty gritty of the numbers, or whether the deals are market value. They are fair deals and good players, that’s all that matters in this context. What I wanted to bring up is this: the Mavericks have a uniquely talented and uniquely weird roster this season and having as many players locked up to multi-year deals should mean a much happier locker room.

You could argue Dallas has as deep a top seven as any other team in the league, but “problem” is that the pieces don’t fit so cleanly together. Tha

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