Facundo Campazzo was officially cut by the Dallas Mavericks of the United States basketball NBA, after having played just eight games for the Texas state franchise.
The 31-year-old point guard of the Argentine national team did not reach the expected regularity within the team led by DT Jason Kidd and will leave the world’s top basketball league if another club does not emerge in these 24 hours that requires his services. After that period, the player will be considered an unrestricted free agent.
The arrival of the point guard Kemba Walker (from Detroit Pistons) to the Mavericks accelerated the departure of the Cordovan, former Peñarol de Mar del Plata.
On the tight stretch in Dallas, Campazzo averaged 1.3 points; 1.1 assists and 0.3 rebounds per game. And only in one of the matches (against the Houston Rockets a week ago), the point guard had almost 23 minutes of filming.
The Dallas Mavericks have waived guard Facundo Campazzo. pic.twitter.com/r3XxWVuPbR
— Mavs PR (@MavsPR) November 28, 2022
During the day on Monday, the main American journalists who cover the activity of the NBA began to slip as “certain” the possibility that Facundo was declared expendable by the Texan entity. And it was the basketball player’s own communication team that broke the news, ensuring that “Dallas Mavericks decided to cut Facundo Campazzo’s contract.”
“It can be claimed by any NBA team in the next 48 hours. At the end of that term, he will be a free agent without restrictions”, added the press department of the setter of the selected Albiceleste, champion in the last AmeriCup in Recife, last September.
Facu’s future
The options that Campazzo would handle would consist of return to European basketball, with Real Madrid (club from which he went to the Denver Nuggets in 2020 and in which he was for almost four seasons) as an always current alternative.
But there are other clubs that participate in the Euroleague that have been interested in having the services of the Argentine strategist. A) Yes, Fenerbahce from Turkeythe current leader of the continental competition, had offered an agreement for three seasons months ago and a salary mass that was around 9 million dollars as a whole.
Also Partizan de Serbia He did polls to try to keep Campazzo’s file, who in the next few days will resolve his future.
