Big absent from the Nets this season, Spencer Dinwiddie has just completed his convalescence, notably with the Frenchman Fabrice Gautier, six months after his serious knee injury. The surgeon Riley Williams assures him, the leader can prepare normally in order to return to the NBA floors.
Not content to regain his level of last season, at almost 21 points on average, Dinwiddie will have to convince a franchise to recruit him since the 28-year-old player has bet on him by declining his “player option” to $ 12.3 million to land one last big contract.
With this desire to earn a salary worthy of a titular point guard, Spencer Dinwiddie would see himself coming home. Originally from California, the free agent would have given his preference to franchises in Los Angeles, according to the New York Daily News.
An arrival via a “sign & trade”?
If these two franchises would welcome the arrival of Dinwiddie, there are two important constraints. First, the former Piston is coming out of a blank season and giving him 20-25 million will obviously be risky. Then, the Lakers and the Clippers already exceed the salary cap for next season ($ 112.4 million) with respectively 117 million and 149 million dollars guaranteed for next year according to Spotrac, and they will therefore not be able to not go crazy when it comes to recruiting.
Unless franchises explore a ” sign-and-trade“, And the Clippers have a rich workforce to offer several players to the Nets. Lakers side, an exchange against Kyle Kuzma, disappointing this year, would be the best solution. And if the NBA champions were to position themselves on Dinwiddie, that would mean the end of the Schroder experience, also a free agent.
Sign-and-trade : operation which consists in signing one of his free agents and then transferring him against players, a large envelope, and / or draft choices. Some franchises use this system to avoid seeing one of their players leave without any compensation. Last season, the Hornets recovered Gordon Hayward as part of a sign-and-trade with the Celtics.
| Spencer Dinwiddie | Percentage | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Fte | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2014-15 | THE | 34 | 13 | 30.2 | 18.5 | 91.2 | 0.1 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 4.3 |
| 2015-16 | THE | 12 | 13 | 35.2 | 10.0 | 57.6 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 4.8 |
| 2016-17 | BRK | 59 | 23 | 44.4 | 37.6 | 79.2 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 7.3 |
| 2017-18 | BRK | 80 | 29 | 38.7 | 32.6 | 81.3 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.2 | 6.6 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 12.6 |
| 2018-19 | BRK | 68 | 28 | 44.2 | 33.5 | 80.6 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 16.8 |
| 2019-20 | BRK | 64 | 31 | 41.5 | 30.7 | 77.8 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 0.3 | 20.6 |
| 2020-21 | BRK | 3 | 21 | 37.5 | 28.6 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 6.7 |
| Total | 320 | 26 | 41.0 | 31.8 | 79.4 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 5.0 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 12.9 | |
