{"id":833069,"date":"2026-07-29T06:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833069\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:12:15","slug":"report-christian-koloko-pelicans-agree-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833069\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Christian Koloko, Pelicans agree to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Toronto Raptors draft pick is going to get a chance to extend his NBA career in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Koloko will compete for the final spot on the Pelicans roster, Scotto reported.<\/p>\n<p>Picked 33rd overall by the Raptors in the 2022 draft, the six-foot-11 Cameroon native had a blood-clot issue midway through his first season in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>He was waived by the Raptors in January 2024 and was deemed medically ineligible to play by the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Koloko, 26, was cleared to return about a month after signing with the Los Angeles Lakers in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>After playing 37 games with the Lakers in 2024-25, Koloko split last season between Los Angeles, the Memphis Grizzlies, the Atlanta Hawks and the G-League.<\/p>\n<p>Koloko has averaged 2.8 points and 2.8 rebounds and 12.3 minutes in 122 career NBA games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Toronto Raptors draft pick is going to get a chance to extend his NBA career in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-833069","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\/833069","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=833069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}