D’Angelo Russell, a free agent guard, has signed a two-year deal with the Mavericks to fill in for Kyrie Irving while he heals.
An ESPN report says that free agent guard D’Angelo Russell has agreed to a $13 million, two-year deal with the Dallas Mavericks. There will be a player choice in the second year of the deal.
Bobby Marks of ESPN says that the Mavericks will sign Russell using the taxpayer mid-level exception.
This will limit their options at the second tax curb. Dallas is now about $1.6 million short of that goal.
The Mavericks want 33-year-old Kyrie Irving to be their long-term point guard, but Irving tore his ACL and will likely miss most or all of the 2025–26 season, so the team needed a stand-in player who can eventually become a backup.
Russell, who was an All-Star in the past, is taking a big pay cut after making $18.7 million last season.
After a bad year in which he played 58 games for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets and averaged 12.6 points, 5.1 assists, 2.8 rebounds, and 1 steal, he is coming off a slow year.
He scored the fewest points and played the fewest minutes of his career.
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