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Dwight Powell

Status: departed — unsigned unrestricted free agent. Dwight Powell is not on the 2026-27 Dallas roster and carries no Dallas projection in this encyclopedia. He is retained here as a departure record.

2026-27 status

Powell's three-year, $12M deal expired and he entered 2026 free agency as an unrestricted free agent. He is absent from ESPN's current Dallas roster and from HoopsHype's 2026-27 Dallas salary table, and Dallas's transaction log shows no re-signing. He turns 35 during the season, and Dallas's frontcourt — Gafford, Lively, Aldama, Washington, Morez Johnson Jr., with Flagg able to slide up — leaves no obvious slot.

Correction 2026-07-18: this file previously carried a 20 GP × 6 MPG Dallas projection and a depth-chart slot, sourced to the nba.com roster display. That listing could not be reproduced on any current source. The projection and the depth-chart slot were removed; his 1.46 weighted minutes went back into the 240-minute pool.

Baseline, for whoever signs him

Powell averaged 3.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 1.1 assists in 14.3 minutes across 63 games in 2025-26 — a screening, rolling, low-usage veteran center whose value was never fantasy-relevant even at those minutes.

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Career record

Pre-NBA: Four years at Stanford (2010-11 through 2013-14), 136 games at 10.8 points and 6.3 rebounds on 46.4% shooting; as a senior he averaged 14.0 points and 6.9 rebounds and made All-Pac-12 first team. Canadian, from Toronto. Draft: 2014, round 2, pick 45, Charlotte Hornets — his rights were traded to Cleveland that July, to Boston in September, and to Dallas that December in the Rajon Rondo deal.

Season Age Team GP MPG PTS REB AST STL BLK 3PM FG% FT% TO
2014-15 23 BOS/DAL 29 8.1 3.1 1.7 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.1 .463 .758 0.4
2015-16 24 DAL 69 14.4 5.8 4.0 0.6 0.5 0.3 0.0 .493 .739 0.6
2016-17 25 DAL 77 17.3 6.7 4.0 0.6 0.8 0.5 0.3 .515 .759 0.4
2017-18 26 DAL 79 21.2 8.5 5.6 1.2 0.8 0.4 0.4 .593 .719 0.7
2018-19 27 DAL 77 21.6 10.6 5.3 1.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 .597 .772 0.9
2019-20 28 DAL 40 26.5 9.4 5.7 1.5 0.9 0.6 0.3 .638 .667 0.9
2020-21 29 DAL 58 16.7 5.9 4.0 1.1 0.6 0.5 0.1 .619 .782 0.7
2021-22 30 DAL 82 21.9 8.7 4.9 1.2 0.5 0.5 0.2 .671 .783 0.8
2022-23 31 DAL 76 19.2 6.7 4.1 0.9 0.6 0.3 0.0 .732 .667 0.9
2023-24 32 DAL 63 13.3 3.3 3.4 1.3 0.4 0.3 0.0 .679 .708 0.5
2024-25 33 DAL 55 10.0 2.1 2.1 1.0 0.3 0.4 0.0 .689 .651 0.3
2025-26 34 DAL 63 14.3 3.3 4.1 1.1 0.5 0.3 0.0 .644 .696 0.7
Career — — 768 17.5 6.5 4.2 1.0 0.6 0.4 0.2 .606 .734 0.7

Durability: The defining absence is the right Achilles tear in January 2020, which ended his 2019-20 season at 40 games and cost him the Orlando restart. He returned for 58 games in 2020-21 and then played 82 in 2021-22, but never got the 26.5 minutes back. Otherwise a reliable 55-to-82-game presence for a decade, with the shrinking totals since 2022-23 driven by role rather than health.

Trajectory: A screen-and-roll, rim-finishing backup center whose entire offensive profile is catching lobs and dunking — hence a .606 career field-goal mark that peaked at .732 in 2022-23 and essentially zero three-point volume. His peak fantasy season was 2018-19 at 10.6 points and 5.3 rebounds, and even that was a low-usage line without a category he wins. He is 34, unsigned, and his three-year, $12M deal expired; Dallas has no slot for him. He has no fantasy relevance in 2026-27 in any scenario short of signing somewhere thin at center and being handed 18-plus minutes by injury, which would still only produce a FG%-and-rebounds streamer.

Career sources: ESPN career stats · Wikipedia · NBA.com bio

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