NBA outfit Dallas Mavericks have added their
first free agent from outside their own players, agreeing to terms with
guard/forward Sterling Brown. According to the emerging reports, it is a 2 year
deal worth $6.2 million.

Sterling was a second round pick at 46th
overall in 2017. He is an SMU graduate and played for the now Mavericks head
coach Jason Kidd in Milwaukee in his rookie year. A report by Bleacher Report
said last week that the Mavericks were considered the favorites to sign him.

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Brown is the kind of all rounder that the
Mavericks want. He adds shooting depth, shooting 42.3% from three in the last
season and also plays some defense. Last season he exceeded expectations as it
was a bit of a shooting breakout for him. Before that, he has never exceeded
36% in his previous 3 NBA seasons.

Although not a Kwahi Leaonard type signing,
Brown adds good depth in the Mavericks squad that badly needs it.

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Mavericks struggled to find form last season
after the regular season. Although the team finished first in the Southwest
division of the Western Conference with forty two wins in seventy two games,
the Mavericks lost the first round of the postseason playoffs to the Los
Angeles Clippers and crashed out of the tournament.

It was the second time in as many years that
the Mavericks crashed out of the NBA post season in the first round itself.
Both the times, the team in front of them was the Los Angeles Clippers although
this time, the margin was a bit tighter. So the Mavericks will hope that Beown
offers them that depth that would allow them to cross the hurdle this time.