{"id":815313,"date":"2026-07-21T23:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815313\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T23:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:02:10","slug":"lakers-waive-peter-suder-hoops-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815313\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Waive Peter Suder | Hoops Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than three weeks after signing him, the Lakers have waived rookie guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suderpe01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peter Suder<\/a>, confirms Dave McMenamin of ESPN (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mcten\/status\/2079654898908737646\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>). The move was necessary in order for the team to open up a two-way contract slot to finalize its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/lakers-to-sign-arthur-kaluma-to-two-way-contract.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported agreement<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kalumar01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arthur Kaluma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suder, who went undrafted out of Miami (Ohio) last month, was named MAC Player of the Year after leading his team to a 31-0 regular season. He averaged 14.8 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists in 33 games while shooting 54.6% from the field and 42.1% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Suder agreed to a two-way deal with the Lakers right after the draft concluded and finalized the contract during the first week of July, but he struggled in six Summer League outings in the California Classic and Las Vegas, averaging 5.3 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 1.7 assists in 17.5 minutes per game, with a .333\/.222\/.750 shooting line.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the situation tells McMenamin that the Coachella Valley Lakers \u2013 Los Angeles\u2019 G League team \u2013 would still like to add Suder to their roster as an affiliate player, but the club understands that the undrafted free agent will explore his options.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/manonch01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Manon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/o\/okereak01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-07-21_bbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AK Okereke<\/a> are the Lakers\u2019 other two-way players along with the newcomer Kaluma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than three weeks after signing him, the Lakers have waived rookie guard Peter Suder, confirms Dave McMenamin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,387621,85],"class_list":["post-815313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-peter-suder","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815313","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=815313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}