{"id":810529,"date":"2026-07-18T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810529\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:37:09","slug":"sandro-mamukelashvili-says-its-unbelievable-to-sign-with-laker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810529\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandro Mamukelashvili says it\u2019s \u2018unbelievable\u2019 to sign with Laker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cJust the name itself \u2013 all of the legends play for the Lakers,\u201d Mamukelashvili told the Post of why he signed with the Lakers. \u201cThe organization is a very high-level organization. They\u2019re starting a new page and it\u2019s just unbelievable to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Mamukelashvili, who got a \u201cMamba Mentality\u201d tattoo while he was in college at Seton Hall, grew up a fan of late Lakers icon Kobe Bryant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI could only imagine this really in 2K, that I would be playing for this team,\u201d Mamukelashvili said. \u201cI\u2019m so excited, so happy. The coaching staff is amazing and I can\u2019t wait to just put the jersey on, go out there and just play my heart out every night. You gotta have a chip on your shoulder when you play for the Lakers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJust the name itself \u2013 all of the legends play for the Lakers,\u201d Mamukelashvili told the Post of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,87289,459,82],"class_list":["post-810529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lakers-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810529","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=810529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}