{"id":832687,"date":"2026-07-29T02:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832687\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:09:08","slug":"ar-had-a-fantastic-season-last-year-well-deserving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/832687\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAR had a fantastic season last year, well-deserving \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lakersnation.com\/quentin-grimes-evaluates-lakers-new-look-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cAR had a fantastic season last year, well-deserving of the contract he got and everything,\u201d Grimes said on 710 AM ESPN L.A. with Mason &amp; Ireland.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cAR had a fantastic season last year, well-deserving of the contract he got and everything,\u201d Grimes said on 710 AM ESPN L.A. with Mason &amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cAR had a fantastic season last year, well-deserving of the contract he got and everything,\u201d Grimes said on 710 AM ESPN L.A. with Mason &amp; Ireland.<\/a> \u201cHe\u2019s one of the best scorers in the NBA, probably. Walker (Kessler), you know, is one of the best rim protectors. I know he only played like four or five games last year, but everybody knows what he does. Nobody wants to go in that paint, 7\u20192\u201d guy he\u2019s going to block shots. He\u2019s going to give us a definite advantage because people aren\u2019t gonna go in that paint, so we can guard and put pressure on the ball even more knowing we got big Walker down in the paint holding it down. \u201cWe got guys like Collin (Sexton), a dog. (Sandro) Mamu, a dog, already getting out here and getting work in. So, it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun. I feel like we\u2019re going to surprise some people for sure with how good we are and clicking on all cylinders, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lakersnation.com\/quentin-grimes-evaluates-lakers-new-look-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lakers Nation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lakers Nation&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Lakers Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAR had a fantastic season last year, well-deserving of the contract he got and everything,\u201d Grimes said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-832687","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\/832687","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=832687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}