{"id":926489,"date":"2026-10-13T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926489\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:56:18","slug":"basketball-clippers-waive-kawamura-ahead-of-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926489\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: Clippers waive Kawamura ahead of NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; The Los Angeles Clippers announced Monday they have waived guard Yuki Kawamura ahead of the 2026-27 NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers signed the Japan national basketball team standout to a non-guaranteed Exhibit 10 preseason contract in August, allowing him to compete for a spot on their opening-day roster.<\/p>\n<p>He contributed 10 points and four assists off the bench during the Clippers&#8217; last preseason game against the Toronto Raptors on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is expected to join the Clippers&#8217; developmental G League affiliate in San Diego, giving him the chance to further make his case for an NBA call-up.<\/p>\n<p>Kawamura starred for Japan at the 2024 Paris Olympics and made his NBA debut for the Memphis Grizzlies during the subsequent season while signed to a two-way contract that split his time between the NBA and G League.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in 18 games for the Chicago Bulls last season, also on a two-way deal, averaging 3.4 points and 2.6 assists in approximately 11 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>Japan teammate Rui Hachimura joined the Clippers in free agency this offseason after parting ways with the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8211; The Los Angeles Clippers announced Monday they have waived guard Yuki Kawamura ahead of the 2026-27&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-926489","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\/926489","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=926489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}