According to reports, D’Angelo Russell accepts a 2 -year agreement and $ 13 million to join Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks found their temporary substitute for Kyrie Irving.
The Mavericks have made an agreement of two years of 13 million dollars with the guard of Punta d’Angelo Russell on Monday afternoon, second Shams Charania by Espn. Russell will also have an option of the player in the second year of the agreement. Choice n. 2 of the NBA Draft 2015 will now join a Dallas team reconstructed around Anthony Davis and the debutant Cooper Flagg, and presumably this autumn will have undergone significant minutes.
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Russell has bounced a lot in recent years. The Maverks will actually be his fourth team in the last four seasons. He was exchanged with the Los Angeles Lakers by the Minnesota Timberwolves during the 2022-23 campaign, and then the Lakers sent him to Brooklyn before the expiry of last season. He finished the end of a two -year agreement and $ 36 million there, and then participated in the free agency this summer.
In total, Russell scored an average of 12.6 career points and 5.1 assists per game last season among his periods with the Lakers and goals. He also shot a career period of 39% from the field. Although Russell has fought in recent seasons, at least some of these can be attributed to its apparently constant movement.
Perhaps above all for Dallas, however, it is that they have now landed a leading guard to hold things before Irving returned. Irving is currently recovering from an ACL injury that has undergone at the beginning of this spring, and should be put aside until January or so. Irving is also the long -term Dallas plan. He accepted a new three -year extension of $ 119 million with franchise last week.
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But until Irving can resume the floor, whenever it ends up being, they need a substitute for him. Russell is an exceptional and cheap option to be filled there. And if Russell can demonstrate that it can still be successful in the championship, it can play this period in a more profitable agreement somewhere else along the way.
The Maverks went only 39-43 last season and largely collapsed after exchanging Star Luka Dončić with the Los Angeles Lakers for Davis. But now with Flagg arrives in Dallas after the draft and a new guard point to fill the gap for the first months, the Maverick seem to be able to compete again in the West. Although it may not be a long -term place for Russell, it is certainly a great opportunity for him too.