{"id":57125,"date":"2025-08-09T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57125\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:57:08","slug":"former-los-angeles-lakers-forward-decides-to-leave-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/57125\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Los Angeles Lakers Forward Decides to Leave the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NBA<\/a> offseason has slowed down dramatically and there hasn’t been a lot of new information coming out about the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n

So far this offseason, the biggest move Rob Pelinka and the front office has made was to lock up Luka Doncic to a three-year, $165 million contract with a player option. Outside of that move, the Lakers have brought in a few new faces.<\/p>\n

Right off the bat in free agency, the team went out and signed Jake LaRavia. After that move, they signed Deandre Ayton following his buyout with the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n

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\nCole Swider (L) #20 and Thomas Bryant #31 of the Los Angeles Lakers are greeted by fans as they take the court for warmups before a preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at T-Mobile Arena…
\nCole Swider (L) #20 and Thomas Bryant #31 of the Los Angeles Lakers are greeted by fans as they take the court for warmups before a preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at T-Mobile Arena on October 06, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Most recently from an outside move perspective, Los Angeles added veteran guard Marcus Smart after he was bought out by the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n

Read more: Carmelo Anthony Drops Bombshell About Lakers and Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/p>\n

With that being said, the roster move news has cooled down dramatically surrounding the Lakers.<\/p>\n

Now, a former Los Angeles player has decided to leave the NBA<\/a> and take his talents elsewhere.<\/p>\n

According to a report from longtime NBA<\/a> insider Marc Stein, Cole Swider has decided to depart the league and sign with Anadolu Efes in T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n

“Sharpshooter Cole Swider is nearing a deal with Anadolu Efes in T\u00fcrkiye, sources tell @TheSteinLine,” he wrote on X<\/a>. “After stints with the Lakers, Heat, Pistons and Raptors, Swider is poised to join the growing number of NBAers moving to the EuroLeague and play for ex-Suns coach Igor Koko\u0161kov.”<\/p>\n

Swider was signed by the Lakers to a two-year contract after going undrafted in the 2022 NBA<\/a> Draft. He played in seven games with the team during his rookie season, scoring nine total points to go along with seven rebounds and four assists.<\/p>\n

Swider ended up playing in 35 total games during his NBA<\/a> career. He averaged 3.1 points and 1.2 rebounds per game in 8.5 minutes per appearance.<\/p>\n

Read more: Celtics’ Jaylen Brown’s Shocking Pick for Toughest NBA Player to Guard<\/a><\/p>\n

Obviously, the forward’s career did not go as planned. He will now look to turn things around overseas with the new opportunity that he has been given.<\/p>\n

Last season, Swider played in eight games with the Toronto Raptors. He averaged 7.4 points and 3.1 rebounds per game, making it the best stint of his NBA<\/a> career.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if the Lakers are done making moves this offseason or if Pelinka has another addition or two up his sleeve.<\/p>\n

For more on the Los Angeles Lakers and general NBA<\/a> news, head on over to Newsweek Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA offseason has slowed down dramatically and there hasn’t been a lot of new information coming out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,37860,8231,459,82],"class_list":["post-57125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cole-swider","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}