{"id":218227,"date":"2025-10-16T17:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:25:07","slug":"sources-hornets-waiving-veteran-guard-spencer-dinwiddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218227\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Hornets waiving veteran guard Spencer Dinwiddie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Charlotte Hornets<\/a> are waiving veteran guard Spencer Dinwiddie<\/a>, sources tell ESPN’s Shams Charania.<\/p>\n

Dinwiddie signed a one-year, $3.6 million deal with the Hornets in early July amid free agency, but Charlotte had to release a guaranteed salary ahead of next week’s regular-season opener and chose his.<\/p>\n

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Dinwiddie, who appeared in just two preseason games with Charlotte, averaged 14.3 points and 6.2 assists in 30 games as a starter for the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> last season. He averaged 11 points, 4.4 assists and 2.6 rebounds in 27 minutes overall in 79 appearances for the Mavericks in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

Now entering his 12th NBA season, Dinwiddie played a key role as the sixth man on the Mavs’ 2022 Western Conference finals team after arriving as part of the Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> deal at the trade deadline and was sent to the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> a year later as part of the Kyrie Irving<\/a> trade.<\/p>\n

Dinwiddie has also played for the Detroit Pistons<\/a>, Washington Wizards<\/a> and Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> during his career, averaging 13.0 points and 5.1 assists in 27.7 minutes in 621 games (345 starts).<\/p>\n

ESPN’s Tim MacMahon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Charlotte Hornets are waiving veteran guard Spencer Dinwiddie, sources tell ESPN’s Shams Charania. Dinwiddie signed a one-year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-218227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}