At the end of January 2019, Kristaps Porzingis was traded along with Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr., and Courtney Lee to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for DeAndre Jordan, Wesley Matthews, and Dennis Smith Jr., as well as two future draft picks. In the free agent market in the summer, the Dallas "Mavericks" offered Kristaps a 158 million-wide five-year contract, which Porzingis did not refuse, making this the most profitable contract in the history of Latvian sports. After almost two years without official basketball games, Porzingis started the season with the "Mavericks" in the fall of 2019. From 2022 to 2023, represented Washington "Wizards.". Kristaps Porzingis about being traded: "It was the end of the trade deadline itself. I thought to myself, Damn, it's really happening! I felt that my time in Dallas would end soon. I thought that I would be traded in the summer. I had that inner feeling. I didn't do well in Dallas the way everyone hoped. Change had to happen."
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14 окт 2024
