(07-05-2021, 07:42 PM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: Melli's gone. Going back to Italy.
https://www.eurohoops.net/en/euroleague/...to-a-deal/
My guess as to what happened --
The initial trade was for JJ Reddick. Melli was filler. The Mavs never intended to keep Melli, unless he just wowed them. He didn't. At the exit interview, they told him they were not counting on him in their plans. That decision would of course have been subject to reconsideration under new management, who evidently did not (try to) persuade him to stay. He gauged his future in the NBA to be somewhat dubious. So he decided to just move on.
If anyone has contradictory information, feel free to update us. It could be that Nicolo was just homesick for Milano, and the Mavs obliged him by letting him go. Who knows?