{"id":815172,"date":"2026-07-20T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:38:08","slug":"lakers-sign-free-agent-forward-matisse-thybulle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/815172\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers sign free-agent forward Matisse Thybulle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Unrestricted free agent forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/matisse-thybulle\/884169\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/matisse-thybulle\/884169\" target=\"_blank\">Matisse Thybulle<\/a> has signed a one-year deal with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, a person with knowledge of the agreement said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deal is worth around $3.3 million, the person told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the signing had not been publicly announced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thybulle, 29, has spent the last three-plus seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/portland-trail-blazers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/portland-trail-blazers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>. He averaged 5.8 points and 2.0 rebounds in 30 games with the Blazers last season, when he was limited by thumb and knee injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A first-round draft pick in 2019, Thybulle is a seven-year NBA veteran. Before joining the Blazers, he played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Thybulle won a bronze medal with the Australian national team at the Tokyo Olympics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lakers now have 16 players under contract after also adding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ziaire-williams-555912\/1231313\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/ziaire-williams-555912\/1231313\" target=\"_blank\">Ziaire Williams<\/a> on Monday, so they\u2019ll have to make an additional move before the season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Greg Beacham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrestricted free agent forward Matisse Thybulle has signed a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, a person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-815172","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\/815172","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=815172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}