NBA problems for the international
Facundo Campazzo’s stage in the Mavericks has lasted less than 50 days. The Dallas franchise cut the point guard this Monday to make room for Kemba Walker in an attempt to revive the season. The Argentine shares a position with the future reinforcement, he was the only player on the team who did not have a guaranteed contract and he had barely entered the rotation: 6.5 minutes in eight of the 19 games played with averages of 1.3 points, 0.3 rebounds and 1.1 assists. He was the weakest link at which that chain in Texas could be broken.
Now, like a return to last summer, he must rethink his career. His dream was to continue in the NBA, but that door hardly has any cracks anymore. Any franchise may claim you during a period of 48 hours that started counting since it was cut and ends this wednesday. Some team has shown interest in assuming his contract, but the role they could offer him is crucial after the two bad experiences in Denver and Dallas. It would be his last train to continue in the United States.
Faced with these few possibilities of continuing in the NBA, It is the wonder of Europewhere he already demonstrated his level before leaving for the Nuggets in 2020. He will not lack offers despite the fact that the season is already launched. There is Real Madrid, who has been testing him since last year and in the summer intensified contacts. During them, instead of bringing positions closer, there was distancing. Relations are not the best, but understanding will not be impossible. The whites continue to have problems at point guard and Campazzo will return to a club he knows, where he has already won everything as MVP and where he can aspire to expand his record. The offer that the club made a few months ago was far from what the player wanted. He will have to negotiate.
El base an owes the Madrid entity some 2.5 million dollars from its exit clause, encrypted in six. It was the highest paid by a player in Europe to get his freedom. He has been paying it first with his last salary before leaving and then with a percentage of his NBA income. In case of return, that debt will be forgiven.
Whites have the chance to match any offer that it reaches Campazzo by a European team to get hold of it. The problem is that there are already three Euroleague teams that have been interested in him. You can receive very succulent proposals and taxation in Spain is very unfavorable compared to other countries such as Turkey and Italy. To equate some of them, Madrid would have to pay much more.
Fenerbahce already offered the Argentine point guard nine million euros for three seasons. But the interest of the Turks has faded as the games have gone by: they are leaders in the Euroleague after suffering a single defeat and the team works. Sportingly, there are no reasons to touch anything. However, Scottie Wilbekin has suffered a knee injury that will keep him out for about three weeks.
Also recently injured was Kevin Pangos and long-term, leaving Armani Milan very battered at point guard.. The Italians, who are going through a serious crisis, are bottom of the Euroleague and they will be able to see in Campazzo the player who will get them out of the quagmire. In the event that no NBA franchise claims the Argentine, the team led by Ettore Messina will enter strongly into a possible bid. They have economic muscle and cannot abandon a project as ambitious as theirs at the beginning of December.
For now, It’s time to wait if someone in the NBA makes room for Campazzo again. If not, the summer soap opera will return but almost at Christmas.
