“I was close to going back to Europe because no offer from the NBA came, but I wanted to wait a bit in case the opportunity arose ”explained Facundo Campazzo a few weeks ago in Dallas about how he lived a summer of uncertainty, more than three months waiting for the option to continue in the NBA. and the occasion appeared in extremis, on the horn. The offer came to him on October 13, two days later he traveled to the US and three days later, on the 18th, the same day the season started, his incorporation to the Dallas Mavericks for one season was made official (he did not debut until the 25th, when you got the visa, and in 17 games available he only participated in 8 for a total of 52 minutes). Then it was learned that that year for $1.83 million (1.77 million euros at the current exchange rate) it was not guaranteed until January 10, so the franchise could do without it, as this Monday he did officially. The Mavs now hope to finalize the signing of Kemba Walkerbase of 32 years and 1.83, four times all star, but who has not played since February and raises great doubts. A desperate decision made by the owner of the Mavericks, Mark Cuban, to try to wrap up Luka Doncic with another ball handler in the midst of the team’s downturn.
Campazzo’s departure from Dallas reopens last summer’s soap opera about where the Argentine will play. “It would be naive to be obsessed with the NBA”he said two months ago in his country, in All News. Facundo can wait for a new (and difficult) opportunity in the NBA or close that chapter of his career and return to Europe. “Florentino told me that they will always wait for me”he assured in AS after his departure to Denver in December 2020. Real Madrid have the right to keep the player if they match any European offer they receiveAlthough, if there is no prior agreement between the two parties, it will be complicated because we are talking about net amounts and due to taxation, much lower in Italy or Turkey, they can offer you much more money in cleansed paying the same or less gross.
The base renewed for five seasons with the white team in the summer of 2019 and a few months later he made the decision to go to the NBA interrupting a contract that slightly exceeded the three million euros gross per year (close to two million net). To do this, he took advantage of the exit clause, of 6 million, of which He still has to pay around 2.6 million (So far he has paid a pro-rata amount based on his NBA contracts.) In case of returning to Madrid, the player’s agents see no other option than to have the debt settled, but for tax reasons it seems like a very complex matter. Relations between both parties have been frayed in recent times.
And beyond the white club there may be other candidates. In October there was talk of a possible interest from Fenerbahçewhich AS could not confirm, and also that it might enter the plans of the champion, Anadolu Efes, due to the injury of Shane Larkin, who is now about to return. Market sources add the name of the Armani Milanin a severe crisis because they have a squad to fight for the title and, instead, they are the current bottom team in the Euroleague and have just lost their point guard Kevin Pangos due to injury, although the time out is only six weeks.
In Europe they are very few clubs capable of assuming a signing like Campazzo’s. And it is the Euroleague or keep knocking on the door of the NBA and wait for it to open again.