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Gal Mekel

Retired • Retired after 2022 season • PG • 2 years of NBA experience

Height6'3

Weight191 lbs

Born4th March 1988 (age 38)

Nationality🇵🇱Poland/🇮🇱Israel

NBA DraftUndrafted, 2010

Pre-draft teamWichita State

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Stats

Year	League	Team	G	MPG	PTS/G	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF
2009-10	EuroLeague	Maccabi Tel-Aviv	1	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0%	0.0	0.0	0.0%	0.0	0.0	0.0%	0.0	0.0	3.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0
2010-11	EuroCup	Galatasaray	6	31.8	10.0	3.8	8.5	45.1%	0.3	2.2	15.4%	2.0	2.5	80.0%	0.3	3.3	6.5	6.3	0.7	0.0	3.3	3.0
2011-12	EuroCup	Treviso	6	14.0	3.3	1.5	3.7	40.9%	0.2	1.0	16.7%	0.2	0.5	33.3%	0.2	1.2	2.0	1.7	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.2
2011-12	Italy	Treviso	22	18.1	6.3	2.5	5.5	46.7%	0.4	1.5	24.2%	0.9	1.3	65.5%	0.3	1.9	2.2	3.7	0.6	0.0	2.0	1.8
2013-14	D League	Texas Legends	4	30.3	10.5	4.0	12.3	32.7%	0.5	2.0	25.0%	2.0	3.5	57.1%	0.8	2.5	3.3	6.3	1.5	0.0	3.0	1.3
2013-14	NBA	Dallas Mavericks	31	9.4	2.4	1.0	2.8	34.9%	0.2	0.6	25.0%	0.3	0.4	66.7%	0.2	0.7	0.9	2.0	0.1	0.0	1.0	1.0
2014-15	EuroLeague	Nizhny Novgorod	6	20.8	11.7	4.5	9.3	48.2%	0.3	1.2	28.6%	2.3	2.8	82.4%	0.2	2.2	2.3	4.7	0.7	0.0	1.8	2.7
2014-15	NBA	New Orleans Pelicans	4	10.8	1.5	0.8	5.0	15.0%	0.0	0.8	0.0%	0.0	0.0	–	0.0	0.3	0.3	3.3	0.5	0.0	0.5	0.3
2015-16	EuroCup	Maccabi Tel-Aviv	3	31.1	16.3	6.3	13.3	47.5%	0.3	1.3	25.0%	3.3	4.0	83.3%	1.0	2.3	4.6	5.7	0.3	0.0	3.0	3.3
2015-16	EuroLeague	Crvena Zvezda	4	20.3	3.8	1.5	6.5	23.1%	0.3	0.8	33.3%	0.5	0.5	100.0%	0.5	1.0	1.5	2.8	0.3	0.3	1.8	1.8
2016-17	EuroLeague	Maccabi Tel-Aviv	24	16.0	4.5	1.6	4.1	39.8%	0.4	1.0	40.0%	0.8	1.4	60.6%	0.3	2.0	2.2	3.3	0.3	0.0	1.4	1.3
2017-18	EuroCup	Gran Canaria	17	22.4	9.6	3.6	8.2	44.3%	0.6	2.0	32.4%	1.7	2.4	72.5%	0.4	1.2	2.0	5.1	0.8	0.1	2.1	2.0
2017-18	Spain	Gran Canaria	40	17.2	8.4	3.2	6.8	46.5%	0.6	1.6	34.9%	1.6	2.2	73.3%	0.5	0.8	1.3	3.4	0.5	0.0	1.7	1.8
2018-19	EuroCup	Zenit Saint Petersburg	7	22.2	7.7	2.9	8.1	35.1%	0.4	1.4	30.0%	1.6	2.3	68.8%	0.1	2.4	0.0	6.6	0.6	0.3	2.3	1.9
2019-20	Italy	Reggio Emilia	17	25.7	12.1	4.4	9.2	48.1%	0.5	1.5	34.6%	2.8	3.3	83.9%	0.3	2.6	2.9	5.6	0.6	0.0	2.7	1.4
2019-20	Spain	Unicaja Malaga	6	20.9	8.2	3.2	8.0	39.6%	0.7	1.8	36.4%	1.2	1.5	77.8%	0.7	2.2	2.8	5.2	0.7	0.0	2.8	1.7
2020-21	EuroCup	UNICS Kazan	3	13.6	7.7	2.0	5.3	37.5%	0.3	1.7	20.0%	3.3	3.7	90.9%	0.3	1.0	1.9	3.0	0.3	0.0	1.3	1.3
2020-21	Spain	Unicaja Malaga	9	16.5	6.0	2.4	5.4	44.9%	0.0	0.6	0.0%	1.1	1.6	71.4%	0.1	1.2	1.3	3.7	0.6	0.1	1.6	1.6
2021-22	EuroCup	Andorra	4	16.5	5.8	2.5	6.0	41.7%	0.8	2.0	37.5%	0.0	0.0	0.0%	0.0	1.5	4.8	4.3	0.5	0.0	3.0	2.3
2021-22	Spain	Andorra	6	15.2	6.0	2.5	5.2	48.4%	0.3	1.0	33.3%	0.7	0.8	80.0%	0.3	1.2	1.5	2.7	0.2	0.0	1.8	1.7

Teams

Date	Team
2004 - 2006	Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
2006 - 2008	Wichita State (NCAA)
March 2008 - September 2008	Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
September 2008 - June 2009	Hapoel Galil Gilboa (Israel)
June 2009 - December 2009	Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
December 2009 - June 2011	Hapoel Galil Gilboa (Israel)
July 2011 - June 2012	Benetton Treviso (Italy)
November 2012 - June 2013	Maccabi Haifa (Israel)
July 2013	Dallas Mavericks (Summer League)
July 2013 - October 2014	Dallas Mavericks (NBA)
December 2014	New Orleans Pelicans (NBA)
February 2015 - July 2015	Nizhny Novgorod (Russia)
August 2015 - January 2016	Crvena Zvezda (Serbia)
January 2016 - July 2017	Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
July 2017 - June 2018	Gran Canaria (Spain)
October 2018 - present	Zenit Saint Petersburg (Russia)

Transactions

Date	League	Transaction
28th March 2008	Israel	Signed for the remainder of the season and through 2011 with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Included team option for 2010/11.
4th September 2008	Israel	Loaned by Maccabi Tel Aviv to Hapoel Galil Gilboa for one season.
2nd December 2009	Israel	Loaned by Maccabi Tel Aviv for the remainder of the season to Hapoel Galil Gilboa.
30th June 2010	Israel	Maccabi Tel Aviv declined 2010/11 team option.
11th August 2010	Israel	Signed a one-year contract with Hapoel Galil Gilboa.
5th July 2011	Italy	Signed a one-year contract with Benetton Treviso.
22nd November 2012	Israel	Signed a two month contract with Maccabi Haifa. Included team option for the remainder of the season.
19th January 2013	Israel	Maccabi Haifa exercised team option for the remainder of the season.
11th July 2013	NBA	Signed a guaranteed three-year minimum salary contract with Dallas Mavericks.
4th March 2014	D League	Assigned by Dallas Mavericks to Texas Legends of the D League.
9th March 2014	D League	Recalled by Dallas from Texas Legends of the D League.
15th March 2014	D League	Assigned by Dallas Mavericks to Texas Legends of the D League.
18th March 2014	D League	Recalled by Dallas from Texas Legends of the D League.
29th October 2014	NBA	Waived by Dallas Mavericks.
4th December 2014	NBA	Signed an unguaranteed minimum salary contract for the remainder of the season and through 2016 with New Orleans.
19th December 2014	NBA	Waived by New Orleans.
24th February 2015	Russia	Signed for the remainder of the season and through 2016 with Nizhny Novgorod. Included player option for 2015/16.
12th July 2015	Russia	Declined 2015/16 player option.
27th August 2015	Serbia	Signed a one-year contract with Crvena Zvezda.
10th January 2016	Serbia	Left Crvena Zvezda.
10th January 2016	Israel	Signed for the remainder of the season and through 2019 with Maccabi Tel Aviv.
14th July 2017	Israel	Left Maccabi Tel Aviv.
14th July 2017	Spain	Signed a one-year contract with Gran Canaria.
6th October 2018	Russia	Signed for the remainder of the season with Zenit St. Petersburg.

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Mavericks to sign Gal Mekel to three year guaranteed deal

1st July 2013

It was actually three, but close enough.

Looking to reinvent their point guard rotation, the Dallas Mavericks have looked to the overseas market, and will sign Israeli national team point guard Gal Mekel.

Mekel has been named in NBA circles in recent times, as he has participated in a series of workouts and free agent camps for teams around the league, hoping to catch on. Recently, this culminated into accepting an offer to join the Milwaukee Bucks' summer league team. Yet in signing a three year, fully guaranteed deal, Mekel has done much more than merely catch on.

Mekel played for Wichita State between 2006 and 2008, establishing himself as a solid but unspectacular point guard who shot too much and had absolutely no NBA prospects. However, after leaving college after his sophomore season and returning to his native Israel, Mekel (who also has a Polish passport) has improved markedly and emerged as one of the best floor generals on the continent. In winning last year's Israel Premier League MVP award, the 6'3 Mekel recorded per game averages of 13.3 points and 5.4 assists (good for second in the league), including a 21 point 7 assist 3 steal outing in the deciding championship game. Mekel commands games with passing vision, ball handling, high basketball IQ, genuine leadership skills and a deadly pick-and-roll game, and, while he's not fast and lacks a good outside jumpshot, he nonetheless brings a wealth of transferrable skills to the NBA.

Last year, Mekel impressed the Utah Jazz so much that they extended him a training camp offer, one he was only prevented from taking due to visa problems. This year, he's done a lot better than that.

Mekel's three year guaranteed minimum salary contract will pay him $490,180, $816,482 and $947,276 over the next three seasons, but does not cut into the Mavericks's cap space. His first year salary is the same as the rookie minimum, and thus it does not affect cap space, as that is the same amount as a cap hold would be. Mekel, then, in theory preserves the Mavericks's cap space plans while adding one future piece of the puzzle, which is why such a move can be announced in advance of future, larger ones.

This news was first reported by Marc Stein of ESPN. Just.

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