{"id":448722,"date":"2025-06-29T19:38:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=448722"},"modified":"2025-06-29T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T17:38:18","slug":"dorian-finney-smith-declines-15-4m-player-option-with-la-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/dorian-finney-smith-declines-15-4m-player-option-with-la-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorian Finney-Smith Declines $15.4M Player Option With LA Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1417\"><strong data-start=\"1255\" data-end=\"1278\">Dorian Finney-Smith<\/strong> has declined his <strong data-start=\"1296\" data-end=\"1355\">$15.4 million player option with the Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>, becoming a <strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1392\">free agent on July 1<\/strong>, per <em data-start=\"1398\" data-end=\"1414\">Shams Charania<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1419\" data-end=\"1631\">Finney-Smith will consider re-signing with the Lakers, but multiple contenders are interested. The Lakers\u2019 roster is in flux, with <strong data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1601\">LeBron James opting into his $52.6 million deal<\/strong> while assessing his future.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1633\" data-end=\"1774\">Acquired at the trade deadline, Finney-Smith averaged <strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1718\">7.9 points and 3.6 rebounds<\/strong>, shooting 39.8% on 4.8 three-point attempts per game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Los Angeles Lakers forward Dorian Finney-Smith is declining his $15.4 million player option for the 2025-26 season and will enter free agency, sources tell ESPN. Multiple contending teams are expected to pursue Finney-Smith beginning Monday night and a Lakers return is possible. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BlYf5Fzplj\">pic.twitter.com\/BlYf5Fzplj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1939354198560387073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forward will become a free agent on July 1, with a possible Lakers return but interest from contenders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"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":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[183],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-448722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-rumors"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448722","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=448722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448722"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=448722"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=448722"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=448722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}