{"id":772292,"date":"2026-07-01T01:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772292\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T01:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:29:09","slug":"lakers-showing-interest-in-16-million-veteran-wing-as-nba-free-agency-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/772292\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers showing interest in $16 million veteran wing as NBA free agency opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

The legal tampering period of the 2026 NBA free agency has officially begun, but the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> haven’t made a move.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has money to spend and a ton of needs to address<\/a>, especially on the wing. With LeBron James set to depart, the Lakers need to add a forward who can somewhat replace the future Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n

Though Los Angeles hasn’t made a signing thus far, they are showing interest in a plethora of free agents, including a veteran forward.<\/p>\n

Lakers have a meeting scheduled with Kelly Oubre Jr.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Kelly Iko of Yahoo Sports<\/a>, free agent forward Kelly Oubre Jr. is garnering a lot of interest. The 29-year-old will meet with a number of teams, including the Lakers.<\/p>\n

“Free agent wing Kelly Oubre Jr. plans to meet with the 76ers<\/a>, Pacers<\/a>, Blazers<\/a> and Lakers among others, sources tell Yahoo Sports,” Iko reported.<\/p>\n

Oubre would be a savvy and affordable signing by Los Angeles. The 11-year veteran is an efficient scorer who averaged 14.1 points per game on 46.7% from the field<\/a>\u00a0with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2025.<\/p>\n

Oubre also shot a career high 36% from three and averaged over a steal per game for the eighth straight season. The 30-year-old is now an unrestricted free agent after playing out the final year of his two-year deal with the 76ers.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Though Oubre can be inconsistent at times and has struggled to stay healthy at times, the Kansas product would add more offensive firepower to the Lakers’ rotation and a starting-caliber wing. However, Los Angeles should prioritize bringing back Rui Hachimura over Oubre, as Hachimura fits better with Luka Doncic and provides greater defensive versatility.<\/p>\n

We’ll see who the Lakers end up signing, but we now know that Oubre is an option as a replacement for James on the wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The legal tampering period of the 2026 NBA free agency has officially begun, but the Los Angeles Lakers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-772292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772292","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=772292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}