Juancho Hernangómez and Facundo Campazzo, without a team

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Juancho Hernangómez

will start the summer without a team.

Hours before the

market opened its doors, the

decided to reject the contract option that the Spanish international had for next season.

After having played for five different teams in the last year, the forward from Madrid will have to return to seek accommodation in the league.

The middleweight of the Hernangómez signed a good end of the season with the Jazz (6.2 points, 3.5 rebounds, 43.8% in triples in 17 games), but it has not been enough to convince the Mormon franchise.

That remaining year, the last of the renewal he signed with the

at the end of 2020, was for $7.3 million.

The wage bill of the Utah Jazz was close to the limit from which the NBA penalizes teams (luxury tax) and dispensing with Juancho Hernangómez was one of the easiest ways to avoid it.

Not surprisingly, they are also going to transfer

(former

the undisputed starter for three seasons.

Since he left the

the team in which he spent his first three and a half seasons in the NBA, Juancho Hernangómez has led a nomadic life.

His start with the Minnesota Timberwolves was good enough to earn him a

but only 10 months later he fell into a wheel from which he has not been able to get out.

In August 2021, after being denied permission to participate in the

the Wolves traded him to the Memphis Grizzlies.

Three weeks later, he went to the Boston Celtics, with whom he played 18 games that did not leave a good taste in his mouth.

From there to the

(5 games) and finally to the Utah Jazz, where he did manage to gain a foothold.

in free agency ,

who has also terminated his contract.

The Catalan, still recovering from his knee injury, did not join the

and sounds like one of the goals of the

with whom he was signing a great start to the season... and where

has been working as an advisor since last January.

Facundo Campazzo, also free

This Thursday Facundo Campazzo was also released.

The Denver Nuggets renounced offering him the

(the closest thing in the NBA to registering a player with the right of first refusal), so the Argentine point guard will be free to negotiate his future.

Despite the injuries that have plagued the team's outside game this season,

hasn't managed to carve out a bigger role for the Nuggets.

The performance of

and the irruption of the rookie

cut him off.

In a recent interview with

Campazzo reiterated that his desire is to exhaust the options of continuing in the NBA: "My priority 1, 2 and 3 is to continue in the NBA. For now, I don't have in mind to return to Europe. It is obvious that at some point it will happen, but not now. I have it very clear: I want to try again, in the franchise that is, but to try again, "he assured.

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