{"id":814082,"date":"2026-07-21T09:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:33:11","slug":"lakers-to-sign-arthur-kaluma-to-two-way-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/814082\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers To Sign Arthur Kaluma To Two-Way Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakers are signing Summer League <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/lakers-notes-kuminga-thybulle-kaluma-assistant-gm-opening.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">standout<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kalumar01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arthur Kaluma<\/a> to a two-way contract, agents Todd Ramasar and Mike Simonetta tell Shams Charania of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/2079380857119273451\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Arthur-Kaluma-vert-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-485066\"  \/>Kaluma, 24, went undrafted in 2025 after playing for Creighton, Kansas State and Texas during his four-year college career. The 6\u20197\u2033 forward averaged 12.3 points, 7.5 rebounds, 1.8 assists, 0.9 steals and 0.9 blocks on .462\/.359\/.784 shooting splits in 33 games (29.3 minutes per contest) as a senior for the Longhorns in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p>Kaluma spent the 2025\/26 campaign with the Lakers\u2019 G League affiliate after signing an Exhibit 10 deal last year. He was waived by Los Angeles last September, which enabled him to earn a bonus with the South Bay Lakers (now called the Coachella Valley Lakers).<\/p>\n<p>In 40 NBAGL games (24.4 MPG), Kaluma averaged 13.8 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 1.5 APG and 0.8 SPG on .552\/.378\/.838 shooting. In five games in Las Vegas over the past couple weeks, Kaluma helped the Lakers go 4-1 by averaging 18.6 PPG, 3.6 RPG and 1.8 APG in just 23.0 MPG. He posted a shooting line of .609\/.500\/.824 in a small sample size.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers will have to waive one of their current two-way players \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/manonch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Manon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/okereak01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AK Okereke<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suderpe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-20_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peter Suder<\/a> \u2014 to officially sign Kaluma. For what it\u2019s worth, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7456544\/2026\/07\/20\/lakers-roster-rumors-overhaul-nba-summer-league\/?unlocked_article_code=1.zFA.SQbk.2jNEBKibzlAO\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dan Woike of The Athletic<\/a> noted earlier on Monday that Suder was available but didn\u2019t play in Saturday\u2019s Summer League semifinal loss to Golden State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers are signing Summer League standout Arthur Kaluma to a two-way contract, agents Todd Ramasar and Mike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[373922,64,63,590,387621,85],"class_list":["post-814082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-arthur-kaluma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-peter-suder","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814082","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=814082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}