The Dallas Mavericks plan to sign Yogi Ferrell to a 10-day contract.

Ferrell has averaged 18.7 points, 2.9 rebounds and 5.8 assists in 35.7 minutes per game in 18 appearances with the Long Island Nets of the D-League.

Ferrell was waived by the Brooklyn Nets in early December after 10 games.

The Dallas Mavericks have signed rookie guard Pierre Jackson to a second 10-day contract. 

Jackson (5-11, 176) has appeared in seven games for Dallas this season, averaging 3.1 points and 1.7 assists in 6.7 minutes per game. He recorded a career-high 10 points to go along with two rebounds, five assists and one steal in 18 minutes in the Mavericks’ 122-73 win over the Lakers on Sunday (Jan. 22).

Jackson was originally signed by Dallas on Dec. 27, before being waived by the team on Jan. 6 after appearing in four games. He then signed his first 10-day contract with the club on Jan. 15.

The New Orleans Pelicans internally discussed using all of their 2016 cap space on Harrison Barnes before deciding to split it up among E'Twaun Moore, Solomon Hill and others.

Barnes confirmed this week he would have considered the Pelicans had they pursued him.

Barnes instead signed a four-year, $95 million max contract with the Dallas Mavericks.

The Pelicans thought they needed to move on the available market and not wait on Kevin Durant to make his decision, which was tying up Barnes from moving forward.

DeJuan Blair has been acquired by the Texas Legends of the D-League.

Blair previously played this season in China, averaging 24.1 points and 13.6 rebounds.

Blair played for the Mavericks, the D-League affiliate of the Legends, during the 13-14 season.

Dallas recently signed Pierre Jackson from the D-League.

The Dallas Mavericks have signed free agent guard Pierre Jackson to a 10-day contract. 

Jackson (5-11, 176) was originally signed by Dallas on Dec. 27, before being waived by the team on Jan. 6 after appearing in four games with the club. In those four contests, he averaged 3.0 points in 7.1 minutes per game. He had seven points, one rebound and two assists in 11 minutes in his NBA debut versus Houston on Dec. 27.

Jackson has appeared in 13 games (all starts) for the Mavericks’ D-League affiliate, the Texas Legends, this season, averaging a league-high 29.6 points to go along with 4.2 rebounds, 6.8 assists and 1.8 steals in 37.4 minutes. He played in 10 games for the Legends before he was signed by Dallas on Dec. 27, but then returned to the D-League squad after being the waived by the Mavericks on Jan. 6.

The National Basketball Referees Association is aggressively asserting that the NBA is allowing Mark Cuban an outsize influence on how the game is officiated.

The NBRA is charging Cuban with pursuing a competitive advantage for his team “via threats and intimidation” toward game referees.

The Vertical obtained a series of memorandums distributed recently among the league’s 64 referees – including correspondences between the NBRA and NBA – that describe over a year of discord between the referees and league office, largely centered on Cuban.

In a recent letter to Byron Spruell, the NBA’s president of league operations, NBRA general counsel Lee Seham outlined what the union considers to be a lengthy pattern of documented violations by Cuban of the NBA constitution and “undue influence of the league’s management of its officials.”

“We consider the threat to the integrity of NBA basketball presented by Mr. Cuban’s misconduct to be real and growing,” Seham wrote on Dec. 9.

In response to the league rejecting Seham’s premise that Cuban holds an “inappropriate influence” over referee employment decisions, the union’s general counsel responded: “No other owner has communicated to our members with such force that he exercises control over their careers. He has communicated that he played a pivotal role in the termination of Kevin Fehr, a referee who met league performance standards. He has communicated to an NBRA board member, during contract negotiations, that the referees would continue to be at-will employees. He has told a referee, during a game, that he follows that referee’s game reports.”

Cuban responded to the accusations. 

“To suggest I have influence is to suggest that the NBA officials can be influenced,” Cuban told The Vertical in an email. “If an official can be influenced by pressure from anyone, they should not be in the NBA. I don’t believe they can be influenced. As far as my influence on employment, several years ago I sent a list to the NBA of officials who had been NBA officials for more than a decade and never made the playoffs.

“I asked why we weren’t bringing in better officials than those who weren’t able to crack the top half of officials. [I think it’s 37 who get selected as playoff refs.] I also asked if being an NBA official was a lifetime job and at what point do we recognize that there is someone else out there who can do a better job? I did this knowing that any terminated refs could receive substantial pensions. As far as anything else, I’ve been the same way since I bought the team and have no reason to change.”

The Dallas Mavericks have assigned center A.J. Hammons and guard-forward Nicolas Brussino to the Texas Legends of the NBA Development League.

Hammons (7-0, 250) has appeared in 17 games for the Mavericks this season, averaging 1.4 points and 1.2 rebounds in 4.5 minutes. He has made four of his first six career 3-point attempts (4-of-6, .667).

Hammons is averaging 12.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 1.5 blocks and 15.5 minutes in two games (both starts) for the Legends this year.

Brussino (6-8, 195) has played in 27 games for Dallas this season, averaging 1.4 points and 1.1 rebounds in 6.8 minutes. This will mark his first career D-League assignment.

Pierre Jackson has been waived by the Dallas Mavericks.

Jackson was recently signed by Dallas to a two-year deal out of the D-League.

Andrew Bogut has embraced the role of coming off the bench for the Dallas Mavericks but he doesn't foresee himself with the franchise in the long-term.

"Thankfully I'm a free agent here so I only have a couple of months more here and then will most likely move on," Bogut said. "I don't see myself hanging around with everything that's gone on. It will be an interesting six months ahead."

When asked if he expects to be moved prior to the February 23 trade deadline, he acknowledged that he was "a valuable commodity" but "you never know."

Dallas acquired the expiring contract of Bogut from the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 offseason.