{"id":113488,"date":"2025-06-21T02:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/113488\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T02:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T02:32:10","slug":"dwight-powell-to-pick-up-player-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/113488\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwight Powell To Pick Up Player Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mavericks center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/p\/poweldw01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dwight Powell<\/a> is exercising his player option for the 2025\/26 season, reports Mark Stein of The Stein Line (via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1936209352546787579\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>). Powell had until Tuesday to make a decision on the option, which will pay him $4MM next season.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-423681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Dwight-Powell-vert-e1741633664470-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"  \/>Powell, Dallas\u2019 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2023\/08\/longest-tenured-nba-players-by-team-2.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">longest-tenured player<\/a>, appeared in 55 games for head coach Jason Kidd last season, averaging 2.1 points, 2.1 rebounds, and 1.0 assist per game in 10.0 minutes per night.<\/p>\n<p>Powell has been with the Mavericks since the 2014\/15 season, when he was traded from Boston to Dallas in a mid-season deal. He was a regular starter for the club as recently as the 2022\/23 season, but has seen his playing time decline within the last couple years.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/d\/davisan02.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Davis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/l\/livelde01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dereck Lively II<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gaffoda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Gafford<\/a> all currently under contract at the center position and are on track to draft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/cooper-flagg-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cooper Flagg<\/a>, who is expected to play minutes at power forward.<\/p>\n<p>Powell\u2019s return will give the Mavericks some depth in case of injury, as well as a veteran who can help instill Kidd\u2019s schemes, assuming he remains on the roster. The big man, who will turn 34 next month, could also end up becoming a trade candidate if the team faces a cap or roster crunch this summer.<\/p>\n<p>If he plays out his contract, Powell will be extension-eligible during the 2025\/26 season and would become an unrestricted free agent next summer.<\/p>\n<p>Powell is one of two Mavs who holds a player option for \u201925\/26. Teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/i\/irvinky01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-06-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kyrie Irving<\/a> also has a decision due by Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mavericks center Dwight Powell is exercising his player option for the 2025\/26 season, reports Mark Stein of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,5991,166,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-113488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-mavericks","11":"tag-dallasmavericks","12":"tag-dwight-powell","13":"tag-mavericks","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114719014632108076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}