{"id":447758,"date":"2025-06-24T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=447758"},"modified":"2025-06-24T08:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T06:56:55","slug":"dallas-mavericks-daniel-gafford-agree-to-3-year-60m-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dallas-mavericks-daniel-gafford-agree-to-3-year-60m-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Mavericks, Daniel Gafford agree to 3-year, $60M extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1683\"><strong data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1448\">Daniel Gafford<\/strong> has agreed to a <strong data-start=\"1465\" data-end=\"1514\">three-year extension worth nearly $60 million<\/strong> with the <strong data-start=\"1524\" data-end=\"1544\">Dallas Mavericks<\/strong>, ESPN reports. The new contract keeps him with the franchise through the 2028-29 season, while still allowing trade flexibility this year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1892\">Gafford, 26, was a key part of the Mavericks&#8217; 2024 Finals run after arriving from Washington. He now anchors a frontcourt that includes Dereck Lively II, Anthony Davis and likely top draft pick Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1894\" data-end=\"2102\">Known for his elite finishing, Gafford holds the <strong data-start=\"1943\" data-end=\"1974\">NBA\u2019s best career FG% (71%)<\/strong> since 2019. He\u2019s also among the league\u2019s top interior defenders, ranking top 10 in contested field goal percentage last season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford intends to sign a three-year contract extension worth nearly $60 million, sources tell ESPN. Mavericks officials and Gafford&#8217;s agents, Mike George and Shy Saee of Klutch Sports, negotiated the new deal through 2028-29. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KinN3vFri6\">pic.twitter.com\/KinN3vFri6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1937294394178117663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas big man will remain with the team through 2029 under the new deal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":371868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[135],"typology":[21],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-447758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-rumors-nba","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Dallas-Mavericks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447758"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=447758"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=447758"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=447758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}