{"id":797197,"date":"2026-07-12T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797197\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:22:22","slug":"lakers-jon-elmore-fills-stat-sheet-in-summer-league-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/797197\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers&#8217; Jon Elmore fills stat sheet in Summer League breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Elmore didn&#8217;t get a chance to show what he could do in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>&#8216; first NBA Summer League game in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, though, Elmore got to play, and in 19 minutes, he proved he can contend with the rest of the players in these games.<\/p>\n<p>Elmore is 30 years old, balding, and not your typical-looking NBA player.<\/p>\n<p>But his skills? He&#8217;s a bucket.<\/p>\n<p>He was a legend at Marshall University and his filled it up in various places around the world since college.<\/p>\n<p>Elmore has never played an NBA game, although he was very good in the G League last season for the Stockton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/sacramento-kings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night, he took three shots, all from beyond the arc, and hit two of them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sergio De Larrea with a gorgeous high lob to Kaodirichi Akobundu-Ehiogu for the alley-oop dunk (with replays).<br \/>Jon Elmore with the corner 3 at the other end. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ACk1LvDXt\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2ACk1LvDXt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MrBuckBuck (@MrBuckBuckNBA) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MrBuckBuckNBA\/status\/2076135252376895638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers\/news\/clippers-rookie-shocks-doris-burke-nba-fans-jumping-free-throw-shots\/77eaf6b5934faaa182e4e29e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">This NBA rookie is jumping on his foul shots<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He filled the stat sheet beyond his six points. Elmore had five assists, four rebounds, three steals and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>He turned it over just once, and he was a plus-16 in his 19 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>A guy like Elmore playing at Summer League isn&#8217;t just trying to impress the Lakers. He&#8217;s hoping to catch the eye of someone from any of the NBA&#8217;s teams.<\/p>\n<p>If he keeps playing like that, he&#8217;ll have a chance.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Elmore didn&#8217;t get a chance to show what he could do in the Los Angeles Lakers&#8216; first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-797197","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\/797197","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=797197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}