{"id":775743,"date":"2026-07-03T04:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775743\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:31:08","slug":"former-loyola-md-lacrosse-star-pat-spencer-reportedly-signs-with-nbas-phoenix-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775743\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Loyola (Md) lacrosse star Pat Spencer reportedly signs with NBA&#8217;s Phoenix Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne Arundel County native and former Loyola (Md) lacrosse player Pat Spencer reportedly agreed to a contract with the NBA&#8217;s Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer is signing a two-way NBA contract, which means he will split his 2026-27 season between the Suns and their G League affiliate, the Valley Suns, according to ESPN&#8217;s Sham Charania.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer played the past three seasons in the Golden State Warriors&#8217; organization. Last season, he averaged 7.2 points and 18.6 minutes per game with the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>He grew up in Davidsonville, Maryland, and attended high school at Boys&#8217; Latin School of Maryland in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer played four years of lacrosse at Loyola and was ultimately drafted first overall in the 2019 Premier Lacrosse League collegiate draft.<\/p>\n<p>He instead enrolled at Northwestern University and played basketball during his final year of college eligibility. In 2022, Spencer joined the Warriors&#8217; G League affiliate and eventually earned a standard NBA contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anne Arundel County native and former Loyola (Md) lacrosse player Pat Spencer reportedly agreed to a contract with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-775743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775743","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=775743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}