{"id":27961,"date":"2025-07-22T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27961\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:14:08","slug":"lakers-cut-ties-with-61-9-shooter-in-favor-of-no-1-scorer-in-college-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27961\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers cut ties with 61.9% shooter in favor of No. 1 scorer in college basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers have continued to configure the back portion of their roster.<\/p>\n<p>The latest move involves waiving Trey Jemison III. He was on a two-way contract with the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Jemison signed a two-year two-way contract in January.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year old center shot 61.9% from the field in 22 games with the Lakers. He averaged 2.6 points and 2.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Jemison has played in 63 NBA games, with 10 starts.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/07\/lakers-waive-two-way-player-trey-jemison.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hoops Rumors<\/a>, Jemison may be replaced in the two-way category by Eric Dixon.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/news\/chris-paul-spurns-lakers-free-agency-decision\/b32ba748c607b8f292264c60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Paul spurns the Lakers with free agency decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Villanova star was the No. 1 scorer in college basketball in 2024-25, at 23.3 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers reportedly signed Dixon to a two-way deal as an undrafted free agent after June&#8217;s draft, but such a contract has never been officially announced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, it looks like Dixon&#8217;s time may have arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of him, though, Jemison is definitely on the way out. He&#8217;ll have to find a fresh start elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>MORE NBA NEWS:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers have continued to configure the back portion of their roster. The latest move involves&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-27961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27961","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=27961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}