DECEMBER 1: The signing is official, according to the team’s PR department (Twitter link).
NOVEMBER 27: Shams Charania of The Athletic confirms (via Twitter) that Barea’s new guaranteed one-year deal will be worth the veteran’s minimum. He’ll earn $2.56MM, with a cap hit of $1.62MM.
NOVEMBER 22: Barea will get a guaranteed contract from the Mavs, per Towsend (Twitter link). Considering he’s coming off a one-year, minimum-salary deal, it’s a safe bet that Barea will sign the same contract this time around.
NOVEMBER 21: The Mavericks are planning to re-sign veteran guard J.J. Barea, Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News tweets.
Barea, 36, has seen his role diminish and he’s also dealt with some injuries over the past two seasons but he remains a fan favorite. He appeared in 29 regular-season games last season, including six starts, and averaged 7.7 PPG and 3.9 APG in 15.5 MPG.
Dallas agreed to a three-year deal with another free agent guard, Trey Burke, so Barea would many serve as insurance in case of backcourt injuries. It also has Jalen Brunson as a point guard option behind star Luka Doncic.
Dallas has agreed to trade another guard, Delon Wright, in a three-team swap and Townsend speculates the Mavs might make more backcourt moves to clear a logjam. Barea has been on Dallas’ roster since the 2014/15 season.
Happy to see JJ back for a 15th season, pretty good carrer for a puertorrican guy that went undrafted!
Yea great guy was with him when he was at northeastern.
Man how can you trade Seth & Delon just to get Richardson and bring back Barea. If Kristap is not back soon enough, Mavs might not even make the playoff. The West is tight right now.
Go home dunkin, you are drunk.
Trading Seth for Richardson + a draft pick was a great trade. Especially after drafting Curry’s replacement at the beginning of the 2nd round.
He will be cut at the end of training camp. Richardson was a replacement over Curry and Delon was awful. He was benched for a reason they signed trey Burke and he got minutes over him for a reason.
He legit will never retire. Good for him, the league and game is always better with under dog players in it like JJ.
Future Mavs assistant coach great guy
I hope that before the season starts he can get a transfer to another team that allows him to use his knowledge and skills as a point guard and where he can contribute 12 to 15 points and over six assists, which is what he was averaging before suffering his injury on the 2018-19 season. If he stays with Dallas it will be a frustrating season for him and for the fans who follow him.
I would disagree with that assessment. You see this all the time where a guy fits on one team and one system and it works well. Remember when JJ Barea played excellent in Dallas and that earned him a contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves? He sucked over there and got shipped right back to Dallas where he fit in with Rick Carlisle system somehow.
That’s what will happen with Jeff Green in Brooklyn this season. He had the perfect system for his talents playing for the Rockets, but will underperform just like the rest of his team as they disappoint everyone in 2021.
JJ has always been a decent player and locker room guy. Who can forget how he locked up Lebron in 2011
This guy is so under appreciated with such a cheap contract. Hopefully he will be added to coaching staff soon.