Campazzo is still in limbo: “There is no agreement with Real Madrid”

The surprising exit of Juan Núñez, a perla from the academy, bound for Germany (Ratiopharm Ulm) brought Real Madrid’s situation back to the forefront of today for the 2022-23 season, almost closed…waiting for a transcendental question in, precisely, the basic position. The same in which Núñez saw little route to the track due to the presence of, for now, Sergio Rodríguez (who returns), Nigel Williams-Goss (who has not left, although he had one foot out), Sergio Llull (eternal, will alternate minutes again between the one and the From) and Carlos Alocén, blank due to a knee injury since February.

The white team, which begins the stage without Pablo Laso on the bench, he doesn’t want a repeat of last season’s management problems, especially when Thomas Heurtel’s injuries and discipline problems piled up. So the squad remains open in the absence of one last big blow, a momentous move: the possible return of Facundo Campazzo. The Argentine base (31 years old) could finish off the new project of a Real Madrid that saved the difficult last season with the League title and the finals played (and lost in extremis) in the Cup and Euroleague. Positive balance.

The signing of Campazzo is demanding patience… and it will continue to demand it. The desire of the Cordovan, he has had enough of repeating it, is to continue in the NBA. That’s his dream, and he knows that, at his age, an exit now would be essentially final. He has played two seasons (high to low) at the Denver Nuggets, and when the free agent market opened on July 1 he did not receive any offers. The Rocky Mountain franchise had opted not to retain the rights to him even though it could have done so by making him a restricted free agent (or with a new contract, of course).

The tetris game continues at the same point more than a month and a half after that July 1 and while the news in the United States already outlines a 2022-23 season that announces calendar and that will start on October 18. Campazzo will not do anything as long as there is a possibility of being in the NBA, and if this does not finally come up, everything points to him being a Real Madrid player. With something already signed, as has been rumored? No, according to his agent Claudio Villanueva: “There is no agreement with Real Madrid. It’s true that they want him, that Facundo always felt comfortable, but nothing has been signed with Real Madrid”.

Waiting for the big soap operas

In statements to world Dthe sports section of the Cordovan newspaper The voiceVillanueva insisted again that nothing has changed, for now: “Facundo’s wish is to receive an offer from the NBA. If Facundo is calm, which is the important thing, we are calm”. This medium quotes other people around them, who also trust that he did don’t have to retrace your steps to the United States: “Facundo is very confident in his ability and that an offer will come from the NBA and we respect that.”

Now with the Argentine national team, with which he is preparing the following qualifying matches for the World Cup (Canada and Bahamas) and the AmeriCup, Campazzo himself insisted that it is time to wait (“I am waiting for my situation in the NBA to be unlocked”) while that the Spanish agent David Carro, who also works with the point guard, has sent a similar and, for now, clear message: “What I want is to reassure the fans of Argentina, because Facu is an NBA player, the NBA considers him an NBA playerthis is how the teams transmitted it, there are interested teams…”.

Like other players, Campazzo’s last bullet hangs by the thread of the greats soap operas of the NBA market. The situation of Kevin Durant, who asked the Brooklyn Nets to transfer him, and Donovan Mitchell, the Jazz star who could change the air, has paralyzed the pieces that remain to be located. A seismic movement, of such dimension, will cause other smaller ones around it, and that is where Campazzo believes that it will find accommodation, with a patience award, in the NBA. If Durant moves, and in that case surely also Kyrie Irving (his wayward teammate on the Nets) in that case, there will be player traffic between two or more teams. Also if Mitchell is traded. Not to mention if all three (a very real possibility) change places in the coming weeks. After the earthquake, the franchises would comb the market to finish off their templates ahead of the imminent new season. And that’s where Campazzo would come into play. If this scenario does not develop like this, the door of Real Madrid will open wide.