File this one away for your Dallas Mavericks Meditations on a Far-Flung Future, or don’t. Nothing means anything anymore in the months when your NBA team has hung up their sneakers, and so, at some point, we commence posting simply for posting’s sake.

To that end, let’s all gather ‘round the campfire for a look at a 2028 prospect that has recently caught our collective eye — none other than Erick Dampier Jr.

If a news peg exists for this conversation, it came out on Tuesday that Dampier Jr. was announced as a member of Team USA’s 2025 U16 squad , so congratulations to the young man. His name is beginning to ring out a little more lately in future-tripping basketball circles.

His dad, of course, played for the Mavericks from 2004-2010, a perennial 8-and-8 low-post presence whose greatest

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