{"id":251951,"date":"2026-07-08T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/lakers-are-signing-a-three-time-nba-champion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:38:21","slug":"lakers-are-signing-a-three-time-nba-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/08\/lakers-are-signing-a-three-time-nba-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers are signing a three-time NBA champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/los_angeles_lakers\/89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> continue to beef up their frontcourt, this time by adding a three-time NBA champion.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers are signing Kevon Looney to a one-year, $3.9 million deal, according to Shams Charania of ESPN. Looney will slot in as the team\u2019s backup center.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, Looney is an outstanding fit for the Lakers. Not only does he have ample experience and lots of victories to his name, but he was a key pick and roll weapon for the Golden State Warriors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Considering one of Luka Doncic\u2019s top requests of the team was to <a href=\"https:\/\/larrybrownsports.com\/basketball\/luka-doncic-lakers-roster-change-star-center\/758745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get him centers he could work off of<\/a>, this signing should make him very happy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/articles\/lakers_are_signing_a_three_time_nba_champion\/s1_127_44038125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers continue to beef up their frontcourt, this time by adding a three-time NBA champion. The Lakers are signing Kevon Looney to a one-year, $3.9 million deal, according to Shams Charania of ESPN. Looney will slot in as the team\u2019s backup center. In many ways, Looney is an outstanding fit for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}