{"id":922596,"date":"2026-10-10T03:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922596\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:42:10","slug":"lakers-announce-new-signing-of-defensive-standout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/922596\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers announce new signing of defensive standout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Lakers have signed Rafael Castro on an Exhibit 10 deal.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers are adding a promising young defensive standout to their roster ahead of the new NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the Lakers announced they have signed Rafael Castro and waived William Kyle III.<\/p>\n<p>Castro joins training camp on an Exhibit 10 deal.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2108694456459485298\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">  Lakers sign Rafael Castro <\/p>\n<p>Rafael Castro is joining the Los Angeles Lakers after being with the Houston Rockets on a two-way deal earlier this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Castro, who went undrafted in the 2026 NBA Draft, averaged 15.3 points, 9.1 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.8 steals, and 1.7 blocks in 27.3 minutes over 29 games at George Washington University during the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>He is a two-time Atlantic 10 All-Defensive Team selection and was named a finalist for the 2025-26 Lefty Driesell National Defensive Player of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>Castro played for Providence (2022-2024) before shifting to George Washington in college.<\/p>\n<p>The American-Dominican center will now look to compete for a potential two-way spot for the Lakers before the opening night of the new season.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_1\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791603730_154_bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Thank you for being with us! Subscribe to BN+ and browse ad-free.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The LA Lakers have signed Rafael Castro on an Exhibit 10 deal. The Los Angeles Lakers are adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-922596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922596","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=922596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}