The Dallas Mavericks will have the tenth pick in the 2023 NBA Draft. With Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison sitting on stage, NBA deputy commissioner Mark Tatum announced that Dallas did not move up in the lottery during the televised 2023 NBA Draft Lottery primetime special on ESPN.

Heading into Tuesday night, the Mavericks held 65.9% odds of securing the No. 10 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, which will take place on Thursday, June 22.

The Mavericks had a 3% chance of landing the No. 1 overall pick in the draft and a shot at drafting French prodigy Victor Wembanyama. The 7-foot-2 nineteen-year-old is the consensus top overall prospect in this year’s draft. Dallas also had 3.3%, 3.6% and 4% odds of landing the second, third or fourth pick in this year’s draft, respectively.

Dallas had a greater than 20% chance of falling outside of the top 10. The Mavericks pick would have conveyed to the New York Knicks if they fell to eleventh or lower because this year’s first-round selection is top 10 protected. New York will now receive Dallas’ 2024 first-round draft pick, completing the Mavericks' 2019 blockbuster trade for Kristaps Porzingis.

To improve their odds of keeping their pick this year, the Mavericks sat their starters and most of their role players during the final two games of the regular season. The move drew the ire of NBA Twitterati and the league itself. The NBA investigated the decision to sit so many players and fined the organization $750,000 for conduct detrimental to the league.

History hasn’t been kind to the Mavericks in the draft lottery. In 16 lottery appearances before Tuesday night, Dallas has never moved up to claim a higher pick from their pre-lottery position. Dallas also endured the trauma of falling one-or-more spots from its projected position seven times — 1986, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2018 and 2019.