{"id":492498,"date":"2026-04-12T18:37:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=492498"},"modified":"2026-04-12T18:37:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:37:02","slug":"los-angeles-lakers-sign-nick-smith-jr-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/los-angeles-lakers-sign-nick-smith-jr-to-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers sign Nick Smith Jr. to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1730\" data-end=\"2025\">The <strong data-start=\"1734\" data-end=\"1756\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> are signing <strong data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1787\">Nick Smith Jr.<\/strong> to a two-year deal, turning him from a two-way player into a standard-contract guard who can now be part of the playoff roster. ESPN reported the news through agent <strong data-start=\"1953\" data-end=\"1969\">Lucas Newton<\/strong> of Klutch Sports.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2027\" data-end=\"2351\">The decision addresses an immediate need in the backcourt with <strong data-start=\"2090\" data-end=\"2105\">Luka Doncic<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2127\">Austin Reaves<\/strong> out. This season, Smith has averaged <strong data-start=\"2165\" data-end=\"2186\">6 points per game<\/strong> while shooting <strong data-start=\"2202\" data-end=\"2220\">40% from three<\/strong>, numbers that help explain why Los Angeles chose to keep him in the mix for the stretch run.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2353\" data-end=\"2621\">For the Lakers, this is mainly a depth move designed to provide another usable guard for the most important part of the year. His conversion to a standard deal is especially relevant because it makes him eligible for the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles have converted their two-way guard to a standard two-year contract<\/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-492498","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","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492498","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=492498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492498\/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=492498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492498"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=492498"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=492498"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=492498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}