The Dallas Mavericks will play their first game of the 2025-26 NBA preseason on Monday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder. This preseason projects to be exciting as 2025 No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg will receive plenty of hype. Before Monday's game, head coach Jason Kidd revealed the strategy for determining the lineup for the regular season, via Noah Weber of The Smoking Cuban.
“Jason Kidd said that they will be using practice, until October 21 (the day before opening night), to figure out who the starters are and who’s coming off the bench as they plan to test out different combinations. He said that just because they left Vancouver doesn’t mean that training camp is over,” Weber wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Before training camp at Media Day, Kidd echoed a similar se