After spending two seasons in the NBAthe future of Facundo Campazzo Today it is not defined and expect news in the coming days. The Cordovan base intends to continue in the NBA while from Spain they claim that the real Madrid already launched a juicy offer to repatriate the Cordovan base…
Campazzo played for Real Madrid between 2014-2015 and 2018-2020.
In the last few hours, Spanish media confirmed the interest of the merengue team to reincorporate Facundo to the team after two years. The recent Euroleague runner-upwith the new coach Jesus Matthew Diez at the head, -always according to Spain- would have offered the 31-year-old point guard a three-year contractwho will also pay off the debt he has with the club since he executed his exit clause in 2020 to reach Denver Nuggets.
Beyond the fact that this information was published by various media, Claudio Villanueva, Cordovan’s agent, denied itemphatic: “Madrid did not make any offer for Facu”.
Meanwhile, Campazzo’s agent in the United States, David Carro, stated that the one that emerged in Penarol of Mar del Plata I should stay in the NBA: “It is a good market for Facu because there are not so many bases but yes several teams looking. There are stakeholders, there are even different figures and types of role. The market was moved until it was blocked by everything that Durant generates. But the important thing is thatSeveral franchises consider him an NBA player and believe that Denver was wrong with him “.
The Argentine point guard was present with the national team in the World Cup qualifiers.
But to know his future we will have to wait a little longer. Since the transfer market began on July 1, quickly paralyzed at the request of the stars Kyrie Irving Y Kevin Durant to leave the Brooklyn Nets. For this reason, many franchises will begin to analyze the chance of adding one or both players, and this put the brakes on medium or small operations.
In the market hierarchy, first times focus on shutting down superstars. Then comes the turn of the figures and finally the role players. Yes ok Denver would have the power to match any offer made by the Argentine, they are not willing to offer you a contract for the minimum salary in the league, which for a third-year player would be $1.8 million.
Facundo Campazzo was Denver’s third baseman in the 2021-2022 season.
“I really wanted to compete and play the last few months. Not playing is frustrating many times. It was the first three days of frustration, then i got bored. I was angry and sad when the games were over. We were winning and I didn’t feel part of it because I wasn’t playing”, were Facu’s words at the end of the season.
The interested teams
One of the certainties is that Campazzo will not continue with the Nuggets, who did not even submit an offer for the player to be a free agent. Before the start of the transfer market, The NBA made a list of the 10 best bases in free agency, and the Cordovan was part of it And many teams in the league have an interest in him. For example Dallas Mavericks, where was praised by Luka Doncic.
Dallas star Luka Doncic said he wanted Campazzo on his team.
Even the last champion, Golden State Warriorsset his sights on The Wizard. The truth is that the Argentine is a worker on the western team, in which he is the third baseman and last season he averaged 18 minutes per game and just 5.1 points. This was by decision of the coach Michael Malon, who decided to lower Facundo’s time, who in the last playoffs he averaged only three minutes.
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