DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks announced today that they have signed forward/center
Melvin Ely and forward Chris Douglas-Roberts. Per team policy, terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Ely (6-10, 261) was the 12th overall pick in the 2002 NBA Draft. He has played for five NBA franchises over his eight-year career (L.A. Clippers, Charlotte, San Antonio, New Orleans and Denver) and has career averages of 5.3 points and 3.3 rebounds in 16.0 minutes per game. His most recent NBA experience was in 2010-11 season where he played 30 games for the Nuggets and averaged 2.3 points and 2.3 rebounds in 12.2 minutes per game. In 2012, he played for Brujos de Guayama in Puerto Rico.
Douglas-Roberts (6-7, 210) spent training camp with the Los Angeles Lakers where he averaged 4.0 points in 8.3 minutes in four games. He was waived on Monday, Oct. 22. He is a three-year pro and was originally selected by the New Jersey Nets in the second round (40th overall) of the 2008 NBA Draft. In total, he has appeared in 155 NBA games (53 starts) for the Nets and the Milwaukee Bucks and has averages of 7.7 points and 2.2 rebounds in 20.6 minutes. Most recently, the 6-7 forward spent the 2011-12 season playing for Virtus Bologna of the Italian League.
The Mavericks’ roster now stands at 18 players and is listed below:
No. Player
3 Rodrigue Beaubois G 6-2 182 2/24/88 Cholet/Guadeloupe 3
42 Elton Brand
25 Vince Carter
4 Darren Collison G 6-0 175 8/23/87 UCLA/USA
9 Jae Crowder
1 Jared Cunningham G 6-4 194 5/22/91 Oregon State/USA R
52 Eddy Curry
Chris Douglas-Roberts F 6-7 210 1/8/87 Memphis/USA
Melvin Ely
5 Bernard James F/C 6-10 240 2/7/85 Florida State/USA R
30 Dahntay Jones G/F 6-6 225 12/27/80 Duke/USA
20 Dominique Jones G 6-5 215 10/15/88 South Florida/USA 2
35 Chris Kaman
0 Shawn Marion F 6-7 228 5/7/78 UNLV/USA
32 O.J. Mayo
41 Dirk Nowitzki F 7-0 245 6/19/78 Würzburg/Germany
13 Delonte West G 6-3 180 7/26/83 St. Joseph’s/USA
34 Brandan Wright F/C 6-10 210 10/5/87 North Carolina/USA 4
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