{"id":395411,"date":"2026-07-12T06:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395411\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T06:13:40","slug":"lakers-arthur-kaluma-scores-34-points-in-breakout-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/395411\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers’ Arthur Kaluma scores 34 points in breakout performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The door opened for Arthur Kaluma<\/a> to show his worth for the Lakers<\/a> in the NBA Summer League on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

He did so in a big way.<\/p>\n

Kaluma had 34 points and five rebounds during the Lakers\u2019 91-70 win<\/a> over the Dallas Mavericks at the Thomas & Mack Center.<\/p>\n

He was 11 for 16 from the field and six for 10 from three-point range.<\/p>\n

With Lakers rookie guard Cameron Carr<\/a> unable to play because of a right thumb contusion, Kaluma took over the scoring role. Carr, the 24th pick in the NBA draft, is averaging 17 points per game.<\/p>\n

\u201cCam doesn\u2019t play tonight, so he gets a little bit more minutes, gets a couple more touches,\u201d said Lakers Summer League coach Ty Abbott about Kaluma. \u201cBut he\u2019s done a really good job of making the most of it when he doesn\u2019t have actions run for him. So the way that he\u2019s been able to stay ready, find windows for himself has kept him in a rhythm. So, on a night like tonight, when we can run some actions for him, he knocks them down and just plays out of his mind. It was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaluma said he was \u201ca little nervous\u201d but his three-point shooting said otherwise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen [teammate] Jon Elmore came down and he pitched it back to me for a three … I just knew when it came off my hand it was cash,\u201d Kaluma said. \u201cSo I said, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m hot.\u2019 It went on from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late in the fourth quarter, Kaluma lined up a three-pointer, setting his feet and scoring from 29 feet out. He flashed three fingers and smiled. His teammates on the bench stood and cheered, as did the fans.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have such a great group of guys this year at Summer League and going through this it\u2019s hard to get that camaraderie with a group,\u201d Kaluma said. \u201cBut I feel like everybody wants to see everybody succeed and I felt that tonight. I\u2019m not going to lie to you. They tell me to shoot the ball. I passed up a couple of shots and they were mad at me the other day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaluma played for the South Bay Lakers in the G League last season. He averaged 14.6 points per game, 4.9 rebounds and shot 55% from the field, 37% from three-point range.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe G can get grimey, you know what I\u2019m saying? It\u2019s a time where everybody is trying to fight for a position and there is a certain hunger that you have to have in order to be successful in the G,\u201d Kaluma said. \u201cAnd I feel like that drive that I had my first year in it pushed me into this summer to really get better and work on my game and come here and have the opportunity to perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kaluma wasn\u2019t alone in helping the Lakers improve to 2-0 in Summer League play.<\/p>\n

Adou Thiero<\/a> ran the court, took a lob pass from Chris Ma\u00f1on<\/a> and threw down a two-handed dunk. He had another solid outing with 15 points and four rebounds. He shot just four for 12 from the field, but was a plus-15.<\/p>\n

But the night belonged to Kaluma.<\/p>\n

\u201cI pride myself on the defensive end,\u201d he said. \u201cI know I got hot offensively, but the shot was just falling today, you know what I\u2019m saying? My game is three-and-D. I lock-up on defense and I know I can hit open shots. I just got hot today and I\u2019m not going to try to let it get to my head.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The door opened for Arthur Kaluma to show his worth for the Lakers in the NBA Summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[22031,158967,158968,12136,6308,2641,423,48,52,51,1415,64590,47,50,49,63,89655,124479,1417,7556,43356],"class_list":["post-395411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-adou-thiero","tag-arthur-kaluma","tag-breakout-performance","tag-chris-manon","tag-field","tag-foot","tag-game","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lakers","tag-lob-pass","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mack-center","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-three-point-range"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395411","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=395411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}