{"id":124501,"date":"2025-02-18T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=124501"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T21:25:21","slug":"philadelphia-76ers-sign-lonnie-walker-shocking-turn-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/18\/philadelphia-76ers-sign-lonnie-walker-shocking-turn-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia 76ers Sign Athletic Wing in Shocking Turn of Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This season has not gone the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/10\/76ers-josh-harris-joel-embiid-playoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>&#8216; way. After signing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/georgpa01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul George<\/a> in the offseason, many believed the 76ers would finish as a top team in the East. Over halfway through the season, however, this is not the case. At the All-Star break, the 76ers are 14 games under .500 and own the No. 11 seed in the East. They have a lot of work to do if they want to earn a playoff spot. However, they are reportedly landing a reinforcement to bolster their roster. According to ESPN&#8217;s Shams Charania, the 76ers have signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/walkelo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lonnie Walker<\/a> IV to a two-year, $3 million deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lonnie Walker IV has agreed to a two-year, $3 million deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, his agent George S. Langberg of GSL Sports Group told ESPN. Walker has played for Zalgiris Kaunas in the Euroleague and had an NBA-out in his deal. He now enters his 7th NBA season. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NQW8xQa1mS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/NQW8xQa1mS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1891950281023213596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Walker is a six-year veteran who has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/16\/spurs-all-star-notes-mcclung-misery-wacky-wembanyama\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/08\/ben-simmons-agrees-nets-buyout-signs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/15\/lebron-james-lakers-statue\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>. He also played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/09\/jayson-tatum-top-10-celtics-scoring\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Boston Celtics<\/a> in the preseason but was waived before the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, reports surfaced saying Walker would spend the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/02\/18\/lonnie-walker-iv-potential-celtics-free-agent-not-returning-nba\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">rest of the season in Lithuania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Philadelphia 76ers Sign Athletic Wing in Shocking Turn of Events<\/h2>\n<h3>Why the Philadelphia 76ers Signed Lonnie Walker IV<\/h3>\n<p>Walker is a veteran wing who provides a lot of athleticism and energy. Furthermore, he is a legitimate scorer and has defensive upside. As for the 76ers specifically, he provides depth. NBA insider Marc Stein reported that the 76ers wanted to bring Walker in because of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gordoer01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-02-18_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Gordon<\/a>&#8216;s wrist injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">With Eric Gordon battling a wrist injury this month and his return TBD, Philadelphia pressed Tuesday to sign Lonnie Walker IV before his NBA buyout clause expired, league sources say.<\/p>\n<p>But the Sixers, I\u2019m told, have been tracking Walker all season as he played in the EuroLeague. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R4IkcjBO7a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/R4IkcjBO7a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marc Stein (@TheSteinLine) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSteinLine\/status\/1891955819245162588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the 76ers signed Walker to a very team-friendly deal. Bringing him in is a low-risk, high-reward move for Philadelphia. Considering how bad their season has been so far, this is a good pickup for them. It also helps that Walker is a Pennsylvania native and is familiar with the area. It is not likely that this played a role in the 76ers signing him, but it is a plus regardless.<\/p>\n<p>The 76ers are in the midst of a five-game losing streak and have lost seven of their last nine games. They will take the court again on Thursday against the reigning champion Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This season has not gone the Philadelphia 76ers&#8216; way. After signing Paul George in the offseason, many believed the 76ers would finish as a top team in the East. Over halfway through the season, however, this is not the case. At the All-Star break, the 76ers are 14 games under .500 and own the No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4631,"featured_media":124505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,2,62,3,13],"tags":[1617,4652],"class_list":["post-124501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-featured","category-nba","category-news","category-76ers","tag-lonnie-walker","tag-lonnie-walker-iv"],"modified_by":"Elie Deglaoui","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124508,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124501\/revisions\/124508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}