The 1980–81 Dallas Mavericks season was the 1st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association

National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

 (NBA).

Draft picks

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	College
1	11	Kiki Vandeweghe			UCLA

• Kiki Vandeweghe of UCLA
  University of California, Los Angeles
  The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
  
   was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft
  NBA Draft
  The NBA Draft is an annual event in which the thirty teams from the National Basketball Association can draft players who are eligible and wish to join the league. These players are usually amateur U.S. college basketball players, but international players are also eligible to be drafted...
  
  , but Vandeweghe refused to play for the expansion Mavericks and staged a holdout that lasted a month into the team's inaugural season. Vandeweghe was traded to the Denver Nuggets
  Denver Nuggets
  The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. They play in the National Basketball Association . They were founded as the Denver Rockets in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association, and became one of that league's more successful teams...
  
  , along with a first-round pick in 1981, in exchange for two future first-round picks

Season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3FG%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG

Additions

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Subtractions

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See also

• 1980–81 NBA season