{"id":294944,"date":"2026-07-13T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:22:41","slug":"lakers-sign-ziaire-williams-to-one-year-3-million-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/294944\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers sign Ziaire Williams to one-year, $3-million contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lakers<\/a> signed free-agent forward <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/player\/1630533\/career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ziaire Williams<\/a> to a one-year, $3-million deal on Monday, people not authorized to speak on the matter publicly confirmed to The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, 24, was available after the Brooklyn Nets declined his team option of $6.25 million, making him an unrestricted free agent.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-9 Williams gives the Lakers an athletic wing player. He averaged a career-high 10.2 points last season for the Nets in 56 games, 13 as a starter.<\/p>\n<p>He shot 42.5% from the field and just 34.3% from three-point range.<\/p>\n<p>NBA scouts who requested anonymity to speak candidly on the matter, said Williams is athletic but hasn\u2019t figure out his game yet. He has been seen as an inconsistent three-point shooter.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who attended Sierra Canyon and Stanford, gives the Lakers a maximum 15 roster players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Lakers signed free-agent forward Ziaire Williams to a one-year, $3-million deal on Monday, people not authorized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,16350,21029,83737,47110,6964,52484,15870,63796,32723,1638,9,24,63,112439,52485,18066,4607],"class_list":["post-294944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-contract","tag-deal","tag-depth","tag-free-agent","tag-game","tag-laker","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-matter","tag-monday","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-one-year","tag-three-point-range","tag-williams","tag-ziaire-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}