Dwight Powell Signs With Fenerbahçe After 763 Games and 12 Seasons in Dallas
Fenerbahçe Tarfin signed the 35-year-old center through 2026-27, 11 days after Dallas waived him. He played 763 of his 768 NBA games with the Mavericks and leaves fourth in franchise field goal percentage at .606.
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Fenerbahçe Tarfin officially signed Dwight Powell on Friday, a contract that runs through the end of the 2026-27 season, 11 days after the Dallas Mavericks waived him. The 35-year-old center played 763 of his 768 NBA regular-season games in Dallas, and he leaves as the fourth-best career field goal shooter in Mavericks history at .606, per the team.
Dallas ran out of roster spots, not uses
Powell re-signed with Dallas on Sept. 25 on a one-year minimum deal that was partially guaranteed for $1 million, per Dallas Sports Journal. He was the only one of the Mavericks' 16 players on standard contracts without a fully guaranteed salary. Keeping him meant trading or cutting someone who was guaranteed, and the team waived him on Oct. 19 instead.
The Mavericks' release that morning listed him fifth in franchise games played, sixth in offensive rebounds (1,187) and total rebounds (3,251), and 10th in blocks (330).
He arrived in Dallas as the second piece in the Rajon Rondo trade in December 2014, per AP.
The game that travels
Across 12 seasons, Powell took 429 threes in 768 games, by our count from his Basketball-Reference totals. That is barely more than one every two games. He made his living in the paint instead: a .657 career mark on twos and a .666 true shooting percentage, per Basketball-Reference.
In 2021-22 he played all 82 games and started 71. In 2022-23 he shot .732 from the field in 76 games.
In 2025-26 he attempted 112 free throws and 101 field goals in 63 games, by our count from Basketball-Reference.
His offensive rebound rate was 11.3% last season and has landed between 9.5% and 12.7% in each of the last five seasons, per Basketball-Reference.
His assist rate has sat above 9% in each of the last three seasons, up from 6.9% in 2022-23, per Basketball-Reference, and in three preseason games this month he averaged 3.7 assists in 12.1 minutes, per the Mavericks.
What changes in Istanbul
The minutes had been shrinking. Powell logged 1,798 minutes in 2021-22, then 1,458, 836, 551 and 904 over the next four seasons, per Basketball-Reference. He averaged 14.3 minutes a night last season as a reserve.
The club's statement credits his ability to play both power forward and center, per Anadolu Agency. The Mavericks list him at 6-10 and 260 pounds.
He averaged 2.1 fouls in 14.3 minutes a game last season, per Basketball-Reference. Under FIBA rules, a game is 40 minutes and a player fouls out at five fouls, not six.
Sources
- Fenerbahçe Spor Kulübü: Dwight Powell joins Fenerbahçe Tarfin: official signing, through the end of the season, power forward and center, 2.08 m, born 1991.
- Anadolu Agency: Fenerbahce Tarfin signs NBA veteran Dwight Powell until end of season: contract through 2026-27, age 35, 768 NBA games, 6.5 points and 4.2 rebounds, positions in the club statement.
- Dallas Mavericks: Mavericks Waive Dwight Powell: Oct. 19 waiver, .606 field goal percentage (fourth in franchise history), 763 games (fifth), 1,187 offensive rebounds, 3,251 rebounds, 330 blocks, 6-10 and 260, 2025-26 averages, preseason 3.7 assists in 12.1 minutes.
- Dallas Sports Journal: Mavericks Waive Dwight Powell After 12 Seasons In Dallas: Sept. 25 re-signing, $1 million partial guarantee, only one of 16 standard players not fully guaranteed.
- AP via NBA.com: Mavericks waive Dwight Powell, likely ending his 12-year run with franchise: Rondo trade in December 2014, all but five of 768 games with Dallas.
- Basketball-Reference: Dwight Powell stats: career totals (266 starts, 429 threes attempted, .657 on twos, .666 true shooting), 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons, 2025-26 games played (63), free throws, field goals, fouls (2.1 per game in 14.3 minutes), offensive rebound and assist rates, minutes by season.
- FIBA: Official Basketball Rules: 40-minute game (four 10-minute quarters), player disqualified at five fouls.
- Marc Stein on X: confirmed the Fenerbahçe signing.
Figures marked "by our count" are the desk's own math from the linked stat pages.
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