{"id":744061,"date":"2026-07-05T05:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744061\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:19:08","slug":"lakers-continue-filling-out-two-way-contract-spots-with-latest-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744061\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers continue filling out two-way contract spots with latest signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers announced the signing of Peter Suder one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/lakersnation.com\/recap-lakers-crushed-by-warriors-in-california-classic-summer-league-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he played in their first<\/a> Summer League game of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Suder played 24 minutes off the bench and made just one of six field goal attempts while pulling down three rebounds and collecting one assist in the lopsided loss to the Golden State Warriors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lakersnation.com\/lakers-will-again-participate-in-2026-california-classic-summer-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Classic<\/a>. The Lakers have two more games at the Chase Center before moving on to the Las Vegas Summer League next weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Reports of Suder signing a two-way contract with the Lakers surfaced after he went undrafted. <\/p>\n<p> Lakers two-way contracts <\/p>\n<p>The Lakers have filled their maximum three permitted two-way players for the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p> Peter Suder <\/p>\n<p>Suder was named the MAC Player of the Year for his senior season at Miami (Ohio) that saw him average 14.8 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.3 steals while shooting 54.6% from the field and 42.1% beyond the arc. <\/p>\n<p>Suder is considered a versatile guard and smart defender who should get plenty of on-ball opportunities for the Lakers throughout their Summer League games. He\u2019s wearing No. 35 this summer.<\/p>\n<p> Chris Ma\u00f1on <\/p>\n<p>The Lakers <a href=\"https:\/\/lakersnation.com\/lakers-reportedly-tender-two-way-qualifying-offer-to-chris-manon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tendered a two-way qualifying offer to Chris Ma\u00f1on<\/a> late last month to make him a restricted free agent. Ma\u00f1on then was re-signed on another two-way contract that was made official Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers managing to keep Ma\u00f1on on a two-way contract for the second consecutive season should loom large for the organization as they continue to oversee his development.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old averaged 10.3 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.9 steals per game last season with the South Bay Lakers. In 13 Tip-Off Tournament games, Ma\u00f1on averaged a league-high 2.6 steals to go along with 1.5 blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Ma\u00f1on was named to the G League\u2019s All-Defense team and finished second in G League Defensive Player of the Year voting as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p> AK Okereke <\/p>\n<p>Although not officially announced, it was previously reported AK Okereke was a Lakers\u2019 two-way signee as well. Like Ma\u00f1on and Suder, Okereke is on the summer Lakers roster.<\/p>\n<p>Okereke is a 6\u20197 forward out of Clovis, Calif., who played three seasons at Cornell before ending his career at Vanderbilt. He appeared in 36 games (35 starts) last season and averaged 9.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.0 assists.<\/p>\n<p>If you love our reporting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=lakersnation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">choose LakersNation.com as a preferred source on Google.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers announced the signing of Peter Suder one day after he played in their first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1055,385,239266,99],"class_list":["post-744061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nhl","tag-peter-suder","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744061","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=744061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}