{"id":452614,"date":"2025-07-23T08:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=452614"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:03:16","slug":"marcus-smart-joins-lakers-very-motivated-theres-no-ceiling-for-this-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/marcus-smart-joins-lakers-very-motivated-theres-no-ceiling-for-this-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Smart joins Lakers: \u201cVery motivated, there\u2019s no ceiling for this team\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"440\"><strong data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"215\">Marcus Smart<\/strong> was introduced as the newest member of the <strong data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"281\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong>, signing a <strong data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"327\">two-year, $11 million contract<\/strong> after a buyout with the Wizards. \u201c<strong data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"380\">Luka called me<\/strong> and said he needed my help \u2014 that meant a lot,\u201d Smart said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"442\" data-end=\"644\">The <strong data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"483\">2022 Defensive Player of the Year<\/strong> replaces Finney-Smith as a key perimeter defender. With <strong data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"561\">108 playoff games<\/strong>, he brings experience to a Lakers squad led by <strong data-start=\"609\" data-end=\"622\">JJ Redick<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"643\">LeBron James<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"646\" data-end=\"855\">\u201cI\u2019m <strong data-start=\"651\" data-end=\"669\">very motivated<\/strong>. The last two seasons were disappointing due to injuries, but I believe everything happens for a reason. Now I\u2019m here \u2014 full circle,\u201d said Smart, who was nearly drafted by L.A. in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Celtics guard praised Doncic\u2019s recruitment. Two-year, $11M deal to bring defense and leadership to L.A<\/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":[165],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-452614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/452614","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=452614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452614\/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=452614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452614"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=452614"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=452614"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=452614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}