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Free cause defender Dante Exum has agreed to a one-year woody to instrumentality to the Dallas Mavericks, sources told ESPN connected Wednesday.
Exum considered 2 different contenders but returns to Dallas to stock ball-handling duties to commencement the play with D'Angelo Russell.
Exum has averaged 8.0 points and 2.8 assists per crippled during his 2 seasons successful Dallas and is valued arsenic a versatile perimeter defender. He was constricted to lone 20 games past play owed to a fractured wrist and breached hand.
Exum's return, on with the signing of Russell with the payer midlevel exception, provides Dallas backcourt extent portion nine-time All-Star Kyrie Irving recovers from a genu wounded that is expected to sideline him until astatine slightest January.
The Mavs volition request to marque a corresponding roster determination to stay nether the wage cap's 2nd apron aft re-signing Exum, according to ESPN's Bobby Marks.
ESPN's Tim MacMahon contributed to this report.
