{"id":129039,"date":"2025-09-03T06:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129039\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:13:06","slug":"former-warrior-lester-quinones-signs-contract-with-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/129039\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Warrior Lester Quinones signs contract with Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/golden-state-warriors\/9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden State Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Golden State Warriors<\/a> have been quiet throughout the free agency period, former members of the team are continuing to find new teams.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/19\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Orlando Magic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Orlando Magic<\/a> announced the signing of former Golden State guard Lester Quinones.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OrlandoMagic\/status\/1962984570116006340\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@OrlandoMagic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@OrlandoMagic<\/a> on X:<\/p>\n<p>After going undrafted out of Memphis, Quinones spent two seasons with the Warriors. During his time in Golden State, Quinones played 41 games, averaging 4.2 points on 39.7% shooting from the field to go along and 37% from deep to go along with 1.8 rebounds in 10 minutes per game. During the 2023-24 season, Quinones flashed glimpses of potential, scoring in double figures four times.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Quinones joined the Philadelphia 76ers. Quinones played four games in Philadelphia before moving to the New Orleans Pelicans for nine games. In the 2024-25 season, Quinones played 13 total games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Along with Quinones, the Magic also signed former Warrior Reece Beekman. The Warriors brought in Beekman as an undrafted free agent out of Virginia after the 2024 NBA draft on a two-way contract. Beekman only played two games with the Warriors before being included in a trade that landed Dennis Schroder in Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>This post originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/warriorswire.usatoday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Warriors Wire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Warriors Wire<\/a>! Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/WarriorsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWarriorsWire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Warriors Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/warriorswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/warriors\/2025\/09\/02\/former-warrior-lester-quinones-signs-contract-with-magic\/85950429007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Former Warrior Lester Quinones signs contract with Magic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Former Warrior Lester Quinones signs contract with Magic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Golden State Warriors have been quiet throughout the free agency period, former members of the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[81902,6423,2243,81901,63190,355,6932,11950,2085,81783,99,48486,73122],"class_list":["post-129039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-colin-castleton","tag-dennis-schroder","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-justin-minaya","tag-lester-quinones","tag-nba","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-orlando-magic","tag-philadelphia","tag-reece-beekman","tag-sports","tag-the-warriors","tag-undrafted-free-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}