Mavericks Eyeing Facundo Campazzo

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.

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