{"id":740316,"date":"2026-07-03T05:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740316\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:53:12","slug":"first-round-pick-cameron-carr-signs-lakers-rookie-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/740316\/","title":{"rendered":"First-round pick Cameron Carr signs Lakers rookie contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the eve of his unofficial NBA debut, first-round draft pick Cameron Carr<\/a> signed his Lakers<\/a> rookie contract, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Lakers acquired Carr, a 6-foot-5 guard, in a swap of picks<\/a> with the New York Knicks. Carr will play for the Lakers in summer league games beginning Friday in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Terms were not announced, but the standard rookie contract for the 24th pick this season is about $16.9 million over four seasons with team options in the third and fourth seasons, according to Spotrac.<\/p>\n

Carr does not play the position most thought the Lakers would target in the draft. Desperate for a big man, the Lakers instead traded to get the shooting guard out of Baylor.<\/p>\n

But Carr fits the bill with his athleticism and length. He recorded a 7-foot wingspan and 8-8 standing reach at the NBA combine, where he also impressed scouts during the five-on-five scrimmage with 30 points and seven rebounds on six-for-12 shooting from three-point range. At Baylor, he averaged 18.9 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.6 assists last season.<\/p>\n

Carr\u2019s father, Chris, played six seasons in the NBA, highlighted by a runner-up finish in the 1997 NBA dunk contest.<\/p>\n

The winner was Kobe Bryant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a chance to make his own NBA legacy, the 21-year-old Carr has found inspiration from his father.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a good outlet for me because he\u2019s been where I want to go, and he\u2019s been down the road I want to go,\u201d Carr told reporters at his introductory news conference. \u201cHe\u2019s been a heck of a person to stand next to. Especially in tough times where sometimes I don\u2019t know where I want to go. Man, I can lean on him and ask him. He\u2019s been a lot of help for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the eve of his unofficial NBA debut, first-round draft pick Cameron Carr signed his Lakers rookie contract,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[245595,318262,19121,27759,318260,31437,78166,6306,355,259070,13544,17589,94814,5190,99,318261,1599],"class_list":["post-740316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-24th","tag-assist-last-season","tag-baylor","tag-carr","tag-father-chris","tag-guard","tag-laker","tag-lakers","tag-nba","tag-nba-combine","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-rookie-contract","tag-season","tag-sports","tag-summer-league-game","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740316","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=740316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}