{"id":174141,"date":"2025-09-28T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:07:09","slug":"lakers-sign-anton-watson-nate-williams-to-contracts-before-2025-26-nba-training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/174141\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Sign Anton Watson, Nate Williams to Contracts Before 2025-26 NBA Training Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Lakers have signed forward Anton Watson and guard Nate Williams to their training camp roster, the team announced<\/a> Saturday.<\/p>\n

Forward Eric Dixon and guard Tevian Jones were waived in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n

Lakers training camp begins Monday and will lead up to Friday’s preseason opener against the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n

Both Watson and Williams are expected to participate in camp, according to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watson was originally selected by the Boston Celtics in the second round of the 2024 NBA draft out of Gonzaga.<\/p>\n

He spent most of last season in the G League, where he averaged 12.0 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.1 assists through 21 games and 18 starts for the Maine Celtics.<\/p>\n

The Celtics cut Watson in March, allowing the New York Knicks to pick him up off waivers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watson went on to play nine regular-season games for the Knicks, posting a combined eight points, three rebounds, two assists, a steal and two turnovers in 22 total minutes on the court.<\/p>\n

Williams, an undrafted free agent out of Buffalo who played five games for the Portland Trail Blazers in 2022-23, spent the last two seasons with the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n

He appeared in 42 regular-season NBA games and three playoff games over that span, averaging three points in 6.6 minutes per night before he was waived by the Rockets in July.<\/p>\n

Both Watson and Williams were signed to Exhibit 10 contracts<\/a>, the same type of deal Jones signed<\/a> Friday. Dixon signed<\/a> his own Exhibit 10 deal in July.<\/p>\n

Those contracts mean all four players could be eligible for bonuses<\/a> if they ultimately spend at least 60 days with the G League’s South Bay Lakers this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers have signed forward Anton Watson and guard Nate Williams to their training camp roster,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-174141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}