{"id":188440,"date":"2025-06-25T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/why-mavericks-big-decision-on-kyrie-irving-is-best-for-both-team-and-player\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:12:47","slug":"why-mavericks-big-decision-on-kyrie-irving-is-best-for-both-team-and-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/why-mavericks-big-decision-on-kyrie-irving-is-best-for-both-team-and-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mavericks&#8217; big decision on Kyrie Irving is best for both team and player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kyrie Irving wants to be a part of the Dallas Mavericks&#8217; future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks, who are soon to welcome presumed No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg, like Irving&#8217;s leadership and ability to fill up the stat sheet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good match, so it makes sense to hear that Irving has made a big decision regarding his long-term future in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>He entered this 2025 offseason with a player option for next season worth $43 million. It&#8217;s being reported by ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania, though, that Irving is declining that player option and signing a long-term deal with the Mavericks.<\/p>\n<p>His new deal will be for three-years and is worth $119 million. It will include another player option in the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n\t{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n\tif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n\tn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n\t'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/why_mavericks_big_decision_on_kyrie_irving_is_best_for_both_team_and_player\/s1_13132_42371635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyrie Irving wants to be a part of the Dallas Mavericks&#8217; future.\u00a0 The Mavericks, who are soon to welcome presumed No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg, like Irving&#8217;s leadership and ability to fill up the stat sheet. It&#8217;s a good match, so it makes sense to hear that Irving has made a big decision regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}