Fenerbahce is closing in on the signing of Dwight Powell. According to BasketNews, the Turkish club is finalizing a one-year deal with the Canadian center, a 13-year NBA veteran. The 35-year-old had also drawn strong interest from several other EuroLeague teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Donatas Urbonas of BasketNews, Fenerbahce had been in talks with Powell for some time and negotiations have now reached the final stages. Powell recently became a free agent following the NBA\u2019s final roster cuts in October and is now set for his first EuroLeague experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Powell spent more than a decade with the Dallas Mavericks, establishing himself as an energetic big man known for his pick-and-roll play and efficient finishing around the rim. Last season, he averaged 3.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 14 minutes per game<\/strong>, shooting 64.4% from the field. Across 768 NBA appearances<\/strong>, Powell has averaged 6.5 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.0 assist in 17.5 minutes. He was also part of Dallas\u2019 run to the 2024 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fenerbahce is finalizing a one-year deal with former NBA center Dwight Powell, according to BasketNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":533057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,313],"tags":[],"rumors":[407],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[16775],"class_list":["post-557493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-turkey","rumors-basket-rumors","typology-rumors","posizionamento-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/09\/Dwight-Powell-Photo-FIBA-1.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557494,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557493\/revisions\/557494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557493"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=557493"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=557493"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=557493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}