{"id":141012,"date":"2025-07-02T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/141012\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:08:08","slug":"former-ohio-state-basketball-star-inks-2-year-deal-with-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/141012\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Ohio State basketball star inks 2-year deal with Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Breaking: Free agent guard D&#8217;Angelo Russell has agreed on a two-year, $13 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell ESPN. Mavericks officials and CAA Co-Heads of Basketball Austin Brown\/Aaron Mintz and Antonio Russell reached the new contract after free agency began. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eljDwhDSUu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/eljDwhDSUu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1939821866367295931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that the NBA Playoffs are over, the free-agent signing frenzy has begun, and there are some former Ohio State basketball players looking to ink deals. On Tuesday, we saw Jae&#8217;Sean Tate <a href=\"https:\/\/buckeyeswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/buckeyes\/mens-basketball\/2025\/07\/01\/ohio-state-basketball-jaesean-tate-signs-deal-houston-rockets\/84440304007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ink a one-year deal<\/a> with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" data-autotag=\"13a51ca7-e216-40c0-a272-58d18f5541d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a>, but we also saw another former Buckeye hoops star lock in a contract as well.<\/p>\n<p>Former star All-American guard D&#8217;Angelo Russell is on the move, having signed a two-year contract with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" data-autotag=\"e6751d65-4a81-4131-973c-176d23467b30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a>. According to reports, the deal is worth $13 million and will help bolster a talented roster that already has the likes of Kyrie Irving, Klay Thompson, Anthony Davis, and No. 1 overall pick, former <a href=\"https:\/\/dukewire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duke<\/a> forward Cooper Flagg.<\/p>\n<p>Russell played for Ohio State just one season, but what a season it was during the 2014-15 season. He led the <a href=\"https:\/\/bigten.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Ten<\/a> in scoring and all freshmen in the country by averaging 19.3 points per contest. He was drafted by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" data-autotag=\"4d34a300-3059-4ec4-a4d3-4d636ac95816\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> in the 2015 NBA draft and has had a ten-year career that&#8217;s seen him also in a Brooklyn Nets, Golden State Warriors, and Minnesota Timberwolves uniform. He <a href=\"https:\/\/buckeyeswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/buckeyes\/mens-basketball\/2019\/02\/01\/dangelo-russell-named-as-replacement-all-star-ohio-state-brooklyn\/78195764007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was an All-Star<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>With Irving out most likely early in the year, rehabbing from an ACL injury, Russell might be leaned on heavily to fill a scoring and ball-handling void. Here&#8217;s to hoping that he gets back to an All-Star form this season.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BuckeyesWire\" rel=\"nofollow\">@BuckeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0Facebook\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes and opinion. Follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilHarrisonBW\" rel=\"nofollow\">Phil Harrison<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breaking: Free agent guard D&#8217;Angelo Russell has agreed on a two-year, $13 million deal with the Dallas Mavericks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[12038,299,7,657,12040,243,5746,319,325,777,686,149,4057,667,666,692,3726,292,194,12039,300,298,150,166,318,70,85,6,231,2504,62,67,16,9449,5751,18827,61,81,211,66,83,17,2499,2196],"class_list":{"0":"post-141012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-mavericks","8":"tag-12038","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-big","12":"tag-big-10-hub","13":"tag-blue","14":"tag-buckeyes","15":"tag-college","16":"tag-college-sports","17":"tag-conference","18":"tag-dallas","19":"tag-dallas-mavericks","20":"tag-dallasmavericks","21":"tag-devils","22":"tag-duke","23":"tag-duke-blue-devils-mens-basketball","24":"tag-football","25":"tag-houston","26":"tag-houston-rockets","27":"tag-hub","28":"tag-lakers","29":"tag-los","30":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","31":"tag-mavericks","32":"tag-mens","33":"tag-national","34":"tag-national-sports","35":"tag-nba","36":"tag-ncaa","37":"tag-ncaa-big-ten-conference","38":"tag-neutral","39":"tag-news","40":"tag-ohio","41":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","42":"tag-ohio-state-buckeyes-football","43":"tag-ohio-state-university-buckeyes-mens-basketball","44":"tag-overall","45":"tag-overall-neutral","46":"tag-rockets","47":"tag-sports","48":"tag-sports-news","49":"tag-state","50":"tag-ten","51":"tag-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141012","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=141012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}