{"id":902970,"date":"2026-09-20T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902970\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:24:10","slug":"mavericks-expected-to-sign-dwight-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902970\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Expected To Sign Dwight Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free agent center Dwight Powell<\/a> is expected to sign with the Mavericks, league sources tell Marc Stein of The Stein Line (via Twitter<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"Stein\u2019s suggests Powell will likely receive a non-guaranteed training camp deal that features Exhibit 9<\/a> language to protect the Mavericks if he were to suffer an injury during camp\/preseason.<\/p>\n

As Stein notes, Powell was with the team this week in Los Angeles as part of a minicamp that was organized by Kyrie Irving<\/a> (Twitter video link<\/a> via Kevin Gray Jr. of DLLS Sports).<\/p>\n

Stein reported in late July (Substack link<\/a>) that Powell and his representation had been in contact with the Mavericks throughout the offseason in the hope that the 35-year-old might be able to return to Dallas. The Canadian veteran \u201chas been hoping to play at least one more season,\u201d Stein wrote at the time.<\/p>\n

The 45th overall pick in the 2014 draft, Powell has spent most of the past 12 seasons with the Mavs after being traded to Dallas as a rookie in December 2014. The 6\u201910\u201d big man averaged 3.3 points and 4.1 rebounds in 63 appearances last season (14.3 minutes per game).<\/p>\n

Although Powell\u2019s on-court contributions have been modest in recent years, he\u2019s widely respected both within the organization and around the league for his professionalism, work ethic and leadership.<\/p>\n

The Mavs currently have 14 players on guaranteed standard contracts, with second-year center Moussa Cisse<\/a> on a partially guaranteed deal that becomes fully guaranteed if he\u2019s still on the roster on October 1<\/a>. That seemingly makes Powell a long shot to make the regular season roster, barring a trade.<\/p>\n

Dallas will have 19 players under contract \u2014 including three on two-way deals \u2014 once Powell\u2019s training camp invite becomes official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free agent center Dwight Powell is expected to sign with the Mavericks, league sources tell Marc Stein of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,312327,459,82],"class_list":["post-902970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dwight-powell","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}