The Dallas Mavericks have agreed in principle with Houston Rockets vice president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas to become the franchise's new general manager, owner Mark Cuban confirmed.

The 35-year-old Rosas, who began his nine-year tenure with the Rockets as an intern and rose through the ranks, will report to Dallas president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson.

"I went to Donnie and said, 'We need to get smarter as an organization and we need to really expand what we're doing,'" Cuban said Monday on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM's Galloway and Company. "We try to take pride in being one of the most technologically advanced teams in all of sports, not just the NBA, and to keep on pushing the envelope in directions that I wanted to go, we needed to not just add brainpower but organizational management and process power.

"I asked Donnie to go out there and find out who he thought would be the best person to do this, and he came back with Gersson's name."