{"id":190387,"date":"2025-09-29T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190387\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:45:07","slug":"lakers-sign-2023-1st-round-pick-nick-smith-jr-to-two-way-contract-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190387\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers sign 2023 1st-round pick Nick Smith Jr. to two-way contract \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO \u2014 On the eve of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/khobi_price\/status\/1972707517353627734\" rel=\"nofollow\">the team\u2019s Media Day on Monday<\/a>, the Lakers added a recent first-round pick to their roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers announced on Monday morning that they <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/khobi_price\/status\/1972704810303685064\" rel=\"nofollow\">signed 2023 first-round pick Nick Smith Jr. to a two-way contract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, the 21-year-old guard whom the Charlotte Hornets selected out of Arkansas with the No. 27 pick in the 2023 draft, averaged 9.9 points (39.1% shooting \u2013 34% on 3-pointers), 2.4 assists and 2.1 rebounds in 60 games (27 starts) for the Hornets in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Smith joins 7-foot center Christian Koloko and 6-foot-4 guard Christian Manon as the Lakers\u2019 three players signed to two-way deals.<\/p>\n<p>Smith averaged eight points (39.1% shooting \u2013 36.9% on 3s), 1.5 assists and 1.5 rebounds in 111 games (27 starts) across his two seasons with Charlotte.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/sports\/charlotte-hornets\/article312264035.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Hornets waived Smith on Thursday<\/a> to become roster-compliant.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers will enter training camp with a full roster of 21 players, including 14 on standard NBA deals and a trio of two-way players, for the team\u2019s first practice on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL SEGUNDO \u2014 On the eve of the team\u2019s Media Day on Monday, the Lakers added a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6306,355,99],"class_list":["post-190387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lakers","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190387","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=190387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}