The Dallas roster now includes 17 names, including one two-way player, and their offseason is all but over. The Mavericks added two impact starters while keeping 10 players from last year’s roster, a vast departure from the high-turnover summers of the recent past, a phenomenon I wrote about a few years ago at Mavs Moneyball. We’ll see how far the offseason additions will take them in a brutal Western Conference this year, but the team feels good about what happened, and there’s a belief they are even better-positioned for the future.



With that said, let’s go through all 16 names under contract.



1. Dennis Smith Jr.2. Wesley Matthews3. Luka Doncic4. Harrison Barnes5. DeAndre Jordan



Even if Nowitzki starts on opening day – Rick Carlisle can be stubborn – I still suspect they end up with this starting five. Jordan locks down the center position on both ends, and positions one through four are highly switchable, both...