{"id":388716,"date":"2026-07-07T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388716\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:12:08","slug":"lakers-defeat-spurs-to-finish-2-1-in-the-california-classic-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388716\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers defeat Spurs to finish 2-1 in the California Classic \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Chris Ma\u00f1on scored 24 points and Arthur Kaluma added 16, as the Lakers put together a strong third quarter to take the lead, then held on for an 88-84 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in their final game of the California Classic summer league event.<\/p>\n<p>Ma\u00f1on, who is on a two-way contract for the Lakers (2-1), shot 7 for 10 from the field, 2 for 3 from 3-point range and 6 for 8 from the free-throw line while adding eight rebounds, two assists, two steals and three blocked shots in 27 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Cameron Carr, a first-round draft pick out of Baylor last month, was held to five points on 2-for-7 shooting (0 for 2 from 3-point range) in just 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers trailed 46-38 at halftime before outscoring the Spurs 27-16 in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie had 19 points and six assists to pace the Spurs (0-3). RJ Davis had 18 points, Tarris Reed Jr. had 12 points and 12 rebounds and Emmanuel Miller added 14 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers next head to Las Vegas for the league-wide summer league event, with their first game scheduled for Friday at 7 p.m. against the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>More to come on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Chris Ma\u00f1on scored 24 points and Arthur Kaluma added 16, as the Lakers put together&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1415,129,127],"class_list":["post-388716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-lakers","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}