{"id":47875,"date":"2022-06-30T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=47875"},"modified":"2022-06-30T21:25:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T01:25:46","slug":"lonnie-walker-iv-signs-with-the-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/06\/30\/lonnie-walker-iv-signs-with-the-los-angeles-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonnie Walker IV Signs With the Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;(Player name) signed with the (Full Team Name) (Day of the Week). The two sides agreed to a _-year contract worth $_ million, or $_ million per season. This contract ties him down through the (year) season.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:11009,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;16&quot;:10}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/walkelo01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lonnie Walker IV<\/strong><\/a> signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday. The two sides agreed to a 1-year contract worth $6.5 million, or $6.5 million per season. This contract ties him down through the 2022-23 season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Lonnie Walker IV Signs With the Los Angeles Lakers<\/h2>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Over his _-year NBA career ___ has played for the __, __ and __. He has put up _ points and _(best remaining stat) per game for his career. He was originally drafted in the _ round, _overall of the _ NBA draft by the _. Last season he scored _ points and _ (stat) for _ the (Full Former Team Name). Add any other details of the deal.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:11009,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;16&quot;:10}\">Over his 4-year NBA career, Lonnie Walker IV has only played for the San Antonio Spurs. He has put up 9.4 points and 2.4 rebounds per game for his career. He was originally drafted in the first round, 18th overall of the 2018 NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs. Last season he scored 12.1 points and 2.6 rebounds for the San Antonio Spurs. Walker IV was not offered a qualifying offer by the Spurs, making him an unrestricted free agent this offseason.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source from ESPN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/34175502\/los-angeles-lakers-add-lonnie-walker-iv-damian-jones-troy-brown-jr-nba-free-agency\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/34175502\/los-angeles-lakers-add-lonnie-walker-iv-damian-jones-troy-brown-jr-nba-free-agency.<\/a> Walker IV is one of three players joining the L.A. Lakers on a one-year deal so far. The 23-year-old played in a career-high 70 games last season.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What This Means for the Future<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is likely a one-year, prove-it deal for Walker IV. He suffered a dip in scoring efficiency last season, but averaged a career-high 12.1 points per game. Walker IV is only 23 years old and should provide plenty of energy, hustle, and youth to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2022\/06\/30\/lakers-free-agency-3-point-guards\/\" target=\"_self\">a Lakers squad sorely lacking in it<\/a>. If the former Miami product can find his shooting stroke from two seasons ago, he&#8217;ll be a regular contributor for the Purple &amp; Gold next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonnie Walker IV signed with the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday. The two sides agreed to a 1-year contract worth $6.5 million, or $6.5 million per season. This contract ties him down through the 2022-23 season.\u00a0 Lonnie Walker IV Signs With the Los Angeles Lakers Over his 4-year NBA career, Lonnie Walker IV has only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4128,"featured_media":47880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[26],"tags":[4642,4652],"class_list":["post-47875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lakers","tag-2022-nba-free-agency","tag-lonnie-walker-iv"],"modified_by":"Matthew Waldman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875","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\/4128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}