{"id":508861,"date":"2026-08-07T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=508861"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T07:07:52","slug":"new-details-on-lonnie-walkers-deal-with-the-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/new-details-on-lonnie-walkers-deal-with-the-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"New Details on Lonnie Walker\u2019s Deal With the Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BennettDurando\/status\/2085415626928017539\">Bennett Durando of the <em>Denver Post<\/em>,<\/a> Lonnie Walker will sign a non-guaranteed training camp deal with the Denver Nuggets and will compete for a roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>The guard has therefore given up two guaranteed seasons remaining on his lucrative contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv in an attempt to return to the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets currently have 13 guaranteed contracts worth approximately $215 million in total (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capsheets.com\/denver-nuggets-cap-sheet-2026-2027-season\/\">CapSheets<\/a>), but they still have to decide what to do with restricted free agent Payton Watson.<\/p>\n<p>If Denver reaches a new agreement with the forward, the team will move above the Second Apron, with all the roster-building implications that entails.<\/p>\n<p>Walker has averaged 10 points and 1.5 assists in 20 minutes per game over his seven NBA seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guard has given up two guaranteed seasons remaining on his lucrative contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv in an attempt to return to the NBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":507078,"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":[82,92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-508861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/1F7A0936.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508861","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508861"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=508861"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=508861"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=508861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}