The Mavericks are weighing the possibility of signing free agent point guard Facundo Campazzo, according to Marc Stein, who tweets that the team has yet to make a decision one way or the other.
Stein first reported over a month ago that the Mavs were considering adding another ball-handler after having lost Jalen Brunson in free agency. Superstar Luka Doncic and veteran guard Spencer Dinwiddie will handle the majority of the point guard responsibilities, but the club is short on reliable veteran options behind those two.
As Stein notes (via Twitter), the Mavericks came into training camp intending to give their in-house backups a shot to claim point guard minutes behind Doncic and Dinwiddie, with Frank Ntilikina, Josh Green, and Tyler Dorsey among the players in the mix. However, the fact that the team is still mulling adding Campazzo or another veteran suggests that none of those players has put a stamp on the role so far this fall.
The Mavs have 14 players on standard guaranteed contracts, so if they don’t mind the additional luxury tax penalty that would come with carrying a 15th man into the regular season, they could comfortably add one.
Campazzo, 31, spent the last two seasons with the Nuggets after establishing himself as one of the best point guards in Europe in his 20s. He averaged 5.6 points, 3.5 assists, and 1.1 steals per game in 130 appearances (20.1 MPG) across his two seasons in Denver, making just 37.2% of his shots from the floor.
Following the expiration of his contract with the Nuggets, Campazzo looked like a candidate to head back overseas, but he spoke in August about wanting to continue playing in the NBA. He’s still an unrestricted free agent, as he continues to exhaust all his options stateside.
As Callie Caplan of The Dallas Morning News observes (via Twitter), Campazzo has one notable connection to the Mavericks — he’s good friends with Doncic, having played alongside the All-NBA guard with Real Madrid from 2015-18.
He’s Def better the Dragic right?
Eric Bledsoe is the best left
Agreed. I don’t think Rondo is going to be welcomed back to Dallas any point in his lifetime either.
He could be interesting on some teams but not Dallas
The joke was that when Dallas traded for him back in the day it was a catastrophe.
This will be a really good pickup as a backup Point Guard and third string Point Guard.
When I first read this article, I thought, “Hmm … a 3rd PG that Luka likes played with … that sounds just like the Mavs should have simply got Dragic.”
He got plenty of PT with the Nuggets, but was a net negative (+/- of -3.2 for the season).
McClung would be a better choice!
Did McClung won euroleague yet ?
Go ahead and type out the whole word “definitely.” It really isn’t that hard just memorize it once.
Said it before… Real Madrid connections with Lucas